[sf-perl] [OT] trying to install font in cygwin without a cygwin font package

[David Alban]

greetings,

font newbie seeks method of adding the font Anonymous
(http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html) to his
cygwin-on-xp installation.

still looking for documentation on adding fonts to cygwin when i don't
have a cygwin package them.

here's what i've tried:

* downloaded the windows version of the zip file on the web page above[1]
* extracted Anonymous.ttf from the zip file and copied it to
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/ where i saw other *.ttf files
* restarted the cygwin X server
* started xfontsel

unfortunately, i couldn't find anything that looked like Anonymous.

do i need to "recompile" or "restage" or some other type of re-
operation to get cygwin to recognize the font?

i see:

$ file $( pwd )/*
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Anonymous.ttf: TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf:      TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraBI.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraBd.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraIt.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraMoBI.ttf:  TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraMoBd.ttf:  TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraMoIt.ttf:  TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraMono.ttf:  TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraSe.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraSeBd.ttf:  TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/encodings.dir: ASCII text
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir:     ASCII text
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fonts.scale:   ASCII text
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximbi.ttf:   TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximri.ttf:   TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirb.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirbi.ttf:   TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirr.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirri.ttf:   TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisb.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisbi.ttf:   TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf:    TrueType font data
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisri.ttf:   TrueType font data

when i look in the text files, i think, yes indeed, there's something
else i must do to "register" [?] the font with the system.

can anyone point me to information i could use to do this?

thanks,
david

p.s.  this page lists some awesome monospaced fonts:
     http://www.codeproject.com/KB/work/FontSurvey.aspx

[1] after downloading the windows version, i thought, maybe i should
try the mac os x version, since mac os x is unix, and this is for
cygwin, but i don't have the stuffit program on my xp work laptop.
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