Re: Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

["Charles P. Schaum" <verbo.solo@sbcglobal.net>]

With Ubuntu and fonts there are several things going on.

Generally, the system-wide fonts are kept under /usr/share/fonts

An alternate place could be /usr/local/fonts

That, however, is usually empty because packages put fonts in named
directories, e.g., in the ttf dir in /usr/share/fonts

TeX-related fonts basically sit in the texmf tree, usually
in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts

You can also add your own into /usr/share/texmf/fonts

Or you can put fonts into ~/.fonts and into your (correct me if I err)
~/.texmf-var/fonts

THEN there's defoma, the Debian Font Manager, and I am not sure what
ramifications exist there. There is a way to make things like otf fonts
in your texmf trees visible to defoma, but I have yet to RTFMP, except
to install the cm-super XII package.

HTH

Charles

On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 23:22 +0200, Diego Depaoli wrote:
> 2008/7/18 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
> >> but this issue still exists in Ubuntu with such fonts imported from Windows.
> >> Where mtxrun catches fonts filenames?
> >
> > Hi Diego,
> Hello Wolfgang,
> >
> > we are talking about two differents things, what you mean is the filename
> > of the fonts you could access with [file:...] in typescripts and which is
> > different on Windows (and all other where the core font packages are used)
> > and on Mac. The font name is another thing and can be different from the
> > file name, you could access fonts by font name with [name:...] in MkIV and
> > this name should (not sure if this is so) be the same on both systems.
> 
> That's clear to me, but my question was about the wrong correspondence
> between font names and filename.
> As I wrote mtxrun --script fonts --lists showed filenames which I
> didn't find anywhere, so I thought mtxrun rewrote them.
> Repeating the same procedure under FreeBSD all goes right.
> Perhaps in my Ubuntu system there is more than one Times New Roman,
> Arial..., (even I don't know where they live) and this confused
> ConTeXt.
> Next time I boot Ubuntu, I'll search in the whole filesystem.
> Thanks for the answer and sorry for the noise.
> 

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