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