Re: [Bitbucket] Issue #22: add '~/.fonts' (for user fonts on Ubuntu) to TTFSearchPath (rptlab/reportlab)

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:43:32AM +0000, Robin Becker wrote:
> On 22/02/2014 06:17, Ian Wood wrote:
> >--- you can reply above this line ---
> >
> >New issue 22: add '~/.fonts' (for user fonts on Ubuntu) to TTFSearchPath
> >https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issue/22/add-fonts-for-user-fonts-on-ubuntu-to
> >
> >Ian Wood:
> >
> >Probably could be in search paths for other types of font also..
> ...
> I am trying to avoid answering all these issues on bitbucket so I'm
> copying reportlab-users to give others a chance to weigh in.
> 
> I have no particular feeling about this particular entry. Since
> python doesn't recognize the ~ as special just using that character
> would not work.
> 
> The question sould probably be re-phrased as can you do add
> os.path.join(os.environ.get('HOME','/dev/null'),'.fonts') to one or
> more search paths?

os.path.expanduser is indeed the canonical solution for this.

> I'm not an expert at all the places where font paths can be
> specified; presumably there might be FONTPATH environment variables
> as well.

I believe the new standard is ~/.local/share/fonts/ [1] (where the
~/.local/share part can be overridden by the $XDG_DATA_HOME environment
variable[2]).

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/2307
[2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Marius Gedminas
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