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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