This might not help since Slackware and RH aren't the same,
but it might give you a place to start looking. And I'd think
that RH either has documentation on their website, or with the
CD's to tell you this.
TTF fonts work fine in Linux. I used the ones that came with
Windoze, and with software designed for Windoze, such as
the Adobe apps. Type1 fonts and just about all others are
reported to work, also.
Maximum number of fonts isn't as important as how many you
actually use. I have about 2,000+ TTF fonts, but haven't used
more than about 15 of them. If you put them all in your font
path, some programs will take a long time to load -- like all of
the apps you use under Wine, since it uses Windoze binaries
or dll's or whatever. If you run Wine, you'll have to put the
fonts for it to use in you fake c drive under /windows/Fonts
for those apps to use them.
Code:
bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config
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# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
# If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
# programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory
# to the end of this list (or comment them out).
#
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
<snip, snip>
