Re: Fonts from specified directory

[N. Raghavendra]

At 2018-09-16T16:36:02+07:00, Yuri Khan wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 3:12 PM N. Raghavendra <nyraghu27132@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to configure Emacs to use fonts from a specified
>> directory?  ...
>
> On fontconfig/GNU/Linux, font file locations are specified by
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and configuration files included by it. See “man
> fonts-conf” for details.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Yes, I can use fontconfig to do it, but it
will force the settings on other applications too.  I was wondering if
one can specify certain font directories just for Emacs.  (For example,
one can do this with TeX and friends, by setting the environment
variable TEXFONTS.)

Regards,
Raghu.

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Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/