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Let something happen on your system.

At first we move your fontfiles into the new fontbase-folder.

You start fontlinge_base with the --move option and tell it where your fonts are stored. It finds all your fonts in this folder and moves them to ~/fontbase/ - subfolder.

You may just copy the fonts instead of moving them. In that case use the --copy option, not move.

The fonts will be renamed to a human-readable filename. If it is not a one-file fonttype like TrueType or OpenType but multi-file like PostScript or MultipleMaster, all files belonging to this font are collected in a folder, also with a nice name.

Never copy or move inside the fontbase. You always put stuff into then fontbase. ~/fontbase may never be the source-folder for a --copy or --move - operation. If you want to reorganize your fontbase, use a trick: rename ~/fontbase to fontbase.OLD and create a new fontbase from this folder.
  Additional options

If you use --fontbase=~/myfonts, your fonts will be sorted into the directory myfonts in your home directory. The option fontbase=... in ~/.fontlinge does the same, but has lower priority than the --fontbase=... param.

If you use the --fontbase=... option or the fontbase setting in your ~/.fontlinge, you'll have to use this directory instead of ~/fontbase in the following commands.


The --rename_otf option gives OpenType fonts the ".otf" extension, so you can differentiate them from TrueType fonts (.ttf). On a technical view, OpenType fonts may be called fontname.ttf, but .otf is nicer ;-)




Quicktip:

fontlinge_base --move /here/are/masses/of/unsorted/fonts/

or

fontlinge_base --copy /unsorted/fonts/from/here/

Never: fontlinge_base --move ~/fontbase/something