fop: using fonts

[Gordon Haverland]

First off, you might as well close 300884.  There is no sense 
keeping a bug report about me whining about documentation open 
for 200+ days.

This sort of relates to 292656, which is a bit older.

A lot of applications I have here can find the Palatino font which 
I have installed.  Fop is not one of them.  The time has come 
where I need fop to be able to use Palatino (if it can).

So, unless you get back to me soon about some already provided 
functionality (I can't find anything), I am going to write a perl 
script to ask defoma for a list of font files, and then for the 
type1 and TrueType fonts in that list (which I expect is all of 
them?), I am going to use TTFReader to build a fop font metrics 
file for each font found, and a "userconfig.xml" file.  I would 
imagine such a global config file should be in the system some 
place, but I have no idea where it should go.  But, once this is 
done, I'll send you a copy.

Does this sound reasonable/useful?  Any input you think might be 
handy?

Gordon Haverland