From: Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Referencing fonts by path within ConTeXt
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 22:57:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c39b10d-b9a8-ce07-9f97-0b0111606305@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGxRUG_4fCsDyrMqu7KFC8sTqr55_JAXeYXDHAx7KV4XLtbo2A@mail.gmail.com>
Joey McCollum via ntg-context schrieb am 07.08.2021 um 22:29:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in packaging a ConTeXt project in a self-contained way,
> so that the environment/component/project .tex files, the bibliography
> .bib file(s), and fonts used for typesetting are all provided in one
> place. (The goal is that others can generate the PDFs themselves from
> the source files as long as they have a sufficiently recent version of
> ConTeXt installed.) The usual ConTeXt directory structure makes sense
> for most of this, but it doesn't address the possibility of accessing
> fonts locally. I think I could do this with a script that temporarily
> sets the OSFONTDIR variable to the local fonts directory and then
> invokes ConTeXt to typeset the project-level file, but I was wondering
> if there is an easier way to do this from within ConTeXt.
> Specifically, is there a way to specify a font via a local path with
> font setup commands in an environment file?
You can use
\usefontpath[...]
to set a directory where ConTeXt searches for fonts but this works only
when you use a typescript and not for \definefontfamily.
Wolfgang
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2021-08-07 20:29 Joey McCollum via ntg-context
2021-08-07 20:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
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