Can font locations be consolidated?

[Eric "Shubes"]

Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> I just did 'locate fonts | wc' and found that there are 2,598 font files on my
> system ... and many of them seem to be duplicates. 
> 
> Is there some way to consolidate these?  Why are there so many different font
> directories?  Seems excessively cluttered. 
> 
> And where are the "hidden" system fonts stored? 
> 
> I'm still wrestling with the problem of a very unsatisfactory font (too small,
> italic, and a poor font style) showing up as the default font in wine menus
> and dialogs (please view this example:
> http://www.fixaim.com/temp/winecfg.jpg), and I can't figure out how to get
> this fixed. 
> 
> Hope somebody can help. 
> 
> 

It's been a few years since I played with wine, but I seem to remember that 
you need to copy (or link) any .ttf font files that you have to your 
windows/fonts directory (whereever you have that located).

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-Eric 'shubes'