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Dick Silbar writes

>However, a QUESTION: it seems that when I installed the fonts in
>/NextLibrary/Fonts (using
>whatever-it-is-called--FontMaker? I am not now at my NeXT),
>some OTHER fonts which were in that directory that I never saw in
>the Font Panel before, now also appeared there and were usable! 
>These were fonts that came with WordPerfect, and include
>interesting things like modern Greek, Cyrillic, Kana(s),
>numerous Math symbols not found in Symbol, and LineDrawing
>characters. 

There are a couple files - '.fontdirectory' and '.fontlist'
which are used by the font panel.  These are automatically
updated when the fontpanel first starts up (in any
application) and sees that they are out of date WRT any
directory name '*.font'.  My guess is that WordPerfect copied
the '*.font's into that directory which keeping their
modification times - OR, you haven't started up an application
and asked for a font panel since they were installed.  The latter
being unlikely, it's probably the former.

You can manually build these caches at any time - see the man page
for 'buildafmdir'.

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