From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: fonts (in luatex) (again)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:22:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080703092217.GA23499@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00807030057p4b4043deib1f730884c15ffcc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:57:51AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Andrea Valle wrote:
> > But, Hans, in the post Mojca says I have the same problem:)
> > uh?
>
> In font-syn.lua there is
> local pathlist = fonts.names.getpaths()
>
> This used to contain some hard-coded paths for Mac users, but then
> Hans switched to reading fonts.conf with
>
> -- name is "fonts.conf"
> local name = fonts.names.xml_configuration_file or ""
> if name ~= "" then
> -- this works on Hans' computer, but not here; name becomes empty
> local name = input.find_file(name,"other")
> -- so this loop is never entered and system fonts are never read
> if name ~= "" then
> collect(xml.collect_texts(xml.load(name),"dir",true))
> end
> end
>
> I guess that Hans has a fonts.conf in his TeX tree, while Linux & Mac
> users don't, and luaTeX doesn't know where to look for fonts.conf.
> What's worse: I suspect that OSFONTSDIR might be completely ignored.
>
> No, don't ask me where fonts.conf should be. Mine are at
> /Users/mojca/.fonts.conf
> /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> but I have no idea what's the proper/default location if any.
If this is fontconfig's fonts.conf, the per user file is ~/.fonts.conf,
the system wide file depends on your installation. But not every user
will have a ~/.fonts.conf (it must be manually created AFAIK).
Regards,
Khaled
>
>
> The /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf one says:
>
> <!--
> Load per-user customization file
> -->
> <include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>
>
> <!--
> Load local system customization file
> -->
> <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>
>
> So I guess that's where the other one gets included.
>
> Mojca
>
> > -a-
> > On 3 Jul 2008, at 00:09, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >
> > Andrea Valle wrote:
> >
> > Ah.
> > So, what the mail by Mojca meant?
> > the one starting with:
> > Hans,
> > I thought that it had worked some time ago, but it seems that it's
> > broken. OPENTYPEFONTS seems the right folders, but doesn't find files
> > in them.
> > ....
> >
> > that something is broken om mojca's machine but we're working on it
> > (when we have a spare moment)
> > Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-28 15:34 Andrea Valle
2008-06-28 17:55 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-30 20:42 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-30 21:06 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-02 13:25 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-02 15:41 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-02 17:22 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-02 22:09 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-02 23:40 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-03 7:55 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-03 7:57 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-03 8:48 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-03 9:28 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-03 9:40 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-03 9:22 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2008-07-03 9:51 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-03 6:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-02 23:30 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-06-30 6:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-30 20:37 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 13:14 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 13:22 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 13:34 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 14:16 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 14:18 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 15:10 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 15:35 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 15:41 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-15 16:22 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-07-15 15:59 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 16:27 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 19:19 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-07-15 20:53 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-07-15 21:58 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-15 21:30 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-16 0:42 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-07-16 7:15 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-16 11:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17 8:05 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 20:36 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-15 20:54 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-15 21:04 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 14:39 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 14:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-07-15 15:53 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 15:57 ` Andrea Valle
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