puzzled by sys:fonts

I was looking at my fonts just now, wanting to fix a problem involving missing Chinese characters.

I've been using Amigas since 1956, and had many an occasion to look at fonts/ in those years. I can' t understand why I never noticed before that both the _ttf drawer and the TrueType drawer contain only fonts with the .ttf or .TTF suffix! And the "type" column for both has "Ttf." I really thought those drawers contained different kinds of fonts.

So now I also wonder: Why in the world two drawers?

Wow! long time user, 59 years!!!!

I you look at a clean install there is only _TrueType, _Ttf is probably added by a 3rd party peogram. looking at the fonts in there I'd guess at a browser.

Yes, should only be _TrueType, that's where they are installed by TypeManager. It doesn't really matter though, as long as the .otag points to the correct location.

@Severin

Lol.

He would have been installing actual font cases in real drawers back then. Maybe his workbench is still going strong.

@kilaueabart

IIRC _ttf drawer is created if you use (as Severin suggested) OWB/Odyssey's 'Download Fonts' script to install "standard" webfonts (arial, comic, courier....) so some pages using such fonts renders/looks fine.

@Steady

As long as he minds his p's and q's he should be fine

@Steady
1956, 1986. Thirty years is a tiny mistake in the millions of years we've been here. Not that big an error in my 80 years either, and I make them pretty regularly now.

@kilaueabart

lol. Fair enough ... sometimes I just can't help myself. I'll let the 30 year gap slide