a bit more doc about fontconfig

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@24091 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

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diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
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--- a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
@@ -1068,11 +1068,15 @@ specify a particular \CTAN\ mirror from the list at
 \subsubsection{Font configuration for \XeTeX}
 \label{sec:font-conf-xetex}
 
-If you have installed the \filename{xetex} package on a Unix-compatible
-system, you need to configure your system if you want \XeTeX\ to be able
-to find the fonts shipped with \TL.  To facilitate this, when the
-\pkgname{xetex} package is installed (either at initial installation or
-later), the necessary configuration file is created in
+On Windows, fonts shipped with \TL\ are made available to \XeTeX\
+automatically.  But if you have installed the \filename{xetex} package
+on a Unix-compatible system, you need to configure your system to be
+able to find the fonts shipped with \TL\ via system name lookup, and not
+just filename lookup.
+
+To facilitate this, when the \pkgname{xetex} package is installed
+(either at initial installation or later), the necessary configuration
+file is created in
 \filename{TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf}.
 
 To set up the \TL{} fonts for system-wide use (assuming you have
@@ -1084,14 +1088,16 @@ suitable privileges), proceed as follows:
 \end{enumerate*}
 
 If you do not have sufficient privileges to carry out the steps above,
-you can instead do the following to make the \TL{} fonts available
-to you as an individual \XeTeX{} user:
+or if you simply want to make the \TL{} fonts available to one user,
+you can do the following:
 \begin{enumerate*}
 \item Copy the \filename{texlive-fontconfig.conf} file to
       \filename{~/.fonts.conf}, where \filename{~} is your home directory.
 \item Run \Ucom{fc-cache -fv}.
 \end{enumerate*}
 
+You can run \code{fc-list} to see the names of the system fonts.
+
 
 \subsubsection{\ConTeXt{} Mark IV}
 \label{sec:context-mkiv}