Those fonts must be True Type fonts in .ttf files.

Requesting a manual setting of requested fonts may seem an unnecessary burden. On the other hand, people using publishing tools often complain about a missing font or a broken one, when importing documents created on another computer. By making fonts a part of a Novelang project (with same strategy as for content and stylesheets) we expect you to avoid those annoyances.

If there is a directory named fonts right under your project root, it is automatically recognized as the fonts directory and Novelang attempts to load every file ending by .ttf as a font. This doesn’t include subdirectories.

You can specify alternate font directories by setting the --font-dirs option at startup. Directory names are whitespace-separated like this:

You can see the list of registered fonts from your browser with following URL:

Inside a XSL-FO stylesheet you set the font-family of a block or an inline element with the font-family attribute. With the “Bitstream-Vera-Sans” correctly installed you’ll declare something like this:

All fonts shipping with Novelang are licensed under the GNU Public License. As a consequence, if you create an electronic document embedding those fonts (precisely what happens with a PDF) your document becomes GPL-licensed. If this is not the wished behavior, consider using other fonts.