From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Linux Libertine type
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:43:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090723164335.GA12044@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A688AC9.4010000@wxs.nl>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:07:37PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:34:37PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>>> ConTeXt doesn't use fontconfig for detecting installed fonts, try to set
>>>> OSFONTDIR to point where your fonts are, then run:
>>>> mtxrun -script fonts -reload
>>>>
>>>> Hans, is it possible to read fontconfig files to detect font directories
>>>> on linux, it is xml files and we would be interested in <dir> and
>>>> <include> tags only.
>>> it does, given that the file can be found someplace in the tree (i
>>> added a log message so that one can see of it is found)
>>
>> The standard places for fontconfig files are ~/fonts.conf and
>> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, any other file is included from there, so may be
>> it should check for those two by default (if it doesn't already).
>
> no, not there but before I even start thinking about adding that we need
> to investigate all places as i'm pretty sure that on the mac it's
> different (somehow 'standard' in practice is never 'standard') and
> there's also the order to consider, one, more, and in what order then
What I wrote above is for linux (I assumed the code is checks for OS and
sets default font paths), /etc/fonts/font.conf is read first followed by
any files included from it, then ~/.fonts.conf so that user can override
system settings.
(http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html has more details)
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-23 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-23 13:50 Derek CORDEIRO
2009-07-23 14:21 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-07-23 14:34 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-23 14:39 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-07-23 16:07 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-23 16:43 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2009-07-23 17:24 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-23 14:35 ` Derek CORDEIRO
2009-07-23 14:45 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-07-23 15:00 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-07-23 15:04 ` Derek CORDEIRO
2009-07-23 16:50 ` Khaled Hosny
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