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In article <9APR199207350244@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov  
(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.
> 
> I'm very happy about this development as well, but how did it happen?
> Did the FontMaker app tell the Font Panel to install everything it
> finds in NextLibrary/Fonts?

You shouldn't be installing anything into /NextLibrary (or /NextApps or  
/NextAnything, for that matter).  If you add fonts of your own, you should  
create a /LocalLibrary/Fonts directory and put the fonts there.  If the font  
installer you used didn't give you a chance to put fonts where you choose, then  
don't use that installer.

The reason I've heard for this is that you don't want those fonts overwritten  
when you do an update (though there may be other reasons).  You may not update  
often, but it's just easy enough to forget that you put something in a /Next*  
directory, and *poof* it's gone....

And you don't have a backup....

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Nik Gervae
Software Publications
ngervae@next.com