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I am wanting to use the Fontin font in my XeTeX document.

What steps should I do for dowloading the font (should I choose TTF or OpenType) and where should it be stored (on Ubuntu)? How can XeTeX find this font?

I am using TexLive 2011 installed in a custom location (/somepath/texlive/2011)

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Install the fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts if you want them system-wide or in ~/.fonts if you want them only for the current user:

$ sudo cp Fontin*.otf /usr/local/share/fonts

You can then check for the font in fc-list:

$ fc-list : family file | grep -i fontin
/usr/local/share/fonts/Fontin-SmallCaps.otf: Fontin SmallCaps,Fontin
/usr/local/share/fonts/Fontin-Italic.otf: Fontin
/usr/local/share/fonts/Fontin-Bold.otf: Fontin
/usr/local/share/fonts/Fontin-Regular.otf: Fontin

which gives you the name to use in XeTeX (using fontspec). For example:

\setmainfont{Fontin}
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    Shouldn't one run fc-cache for using the font immediately? – egreg Sep 6 '11 at 12:18
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    @egreg: I thought so too for some time, and then I realized that it's automatically run on Ubuntu whenever you copy fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts. You can actually see it because the terminal is refreshed a second or so after you do the copy. That said, it doesn't hurt to run fc-cache anyway. – ℝaphink Sep 6 '11 at 12:19
  • Do I understand right that I have to download the OpenType font? – Peter Smit Sep 6 '11 at 12:21
  • Nice to know; it may be necessary on other systems, though. – egreg Sep 6 '11 at 12:21
  • I assume I have to install fonts in ~/.fonts for user only fonts. Do I have to run fc-cache then? – Peter Smit Sep 6 '11 at 12:22

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