[tex-live] LyX and cmr truetypes

[Karl Berry]

Hi John,

    - LyX apparently uses fontconfig - 

I don't get it.  How is TeX (no fontconfig there) supposed to work?  Or
does LyX no longer use TeX at all?  Well, whatever...

    How does all this sit with TeXLive? 

It doesn't.  We don't use fontconfig (or truetype cmr, for that matter).

    $TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/truetype/public/xft-fonts/? 

I can't see any harm in doing that (good choice of path :), and I
suppose it's theoretically possible that some TL tool or another might
do something with truetype.

    Whereever I put them, is there any danger that my indexing them in
    our fontconfig installation will upset anything that TeXLive
    supplies?

I can't see any.

Best,
karl