docs: add section on configuring fontconfig search paths#60
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Addresses a common question about fonts not being found by fontconfig, explaining how to add font directories via XML config files and rebuild the cache with fc-cache. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds documentation to help users troubleshoot missing fonts by explaining how to configure fontconfig search paths via config files and how to verify the effective directories from Python.
Changes:
- Added a “Configuring fontconfig” section describing where fontconfig config files are typically located.
- Included a minimal
fonts.confexample using<dir>to add a custom font directory. - Documented cache rebuild (
fc-cache -f) and verification viaConfig.get_current().get_font_dirs().
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Summary
~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf,/etc/fonts/)<dir>fc-cache -fmust be run after editing config filesget_font_dirs()Motivation: A user asked "how can I find a font file not returned by fontconfig?" — the answer was to add a search path in the config file, but this wasn't documented anywhere in the project docs.
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cd docs/ && make html🤖 Generated with Claude Code