From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: xits font in ~/.fonts
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:01:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100817160144.GA21509@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6AAA1B.80808@wxs.nl>
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 17-8-2010 4:53, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>On 17-8-2010 3:00, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >>
> >>>The typescript uses file names, however ConTeXt can not load system
> >>>fonts by filename. Hans, I think it would be nice to be able to load
> >>>fonts by either font name or file name regardless of where they reside
> >>>(I'm not sure how easy is that, though, with luaotfload and kpse setting
> >>>OSFONTDIR is all what I need, since kpathsea appends it to its font
> >>>searching paths).
> >>
> >>\starttext
> >>
> >>\definedfont[vera at 50pt] test
> >>\definedfont[file:vera.ttf at 100pt] test
> >>
> >>\stoptext
> >>
> >>works quite ok on my machine and the log reports:
> >>
> >><c:/windows/fonts/vera.ttf>
> >>
> >>so it must be something in the typescripts .. maybe the old names?
> >
> >This works for me, but not with .otf fonts.
>
> \starttext
>
> \definedfont[file:STIXGeneral at 100pt] test
>
> \stoptext
>
> <c:/windows/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf>
I'm getting unpredictable results here, some fonts are found and some
are not, but I can't identify a pattern, I thought it is related to
symbolic links but could not prove it (replacing symlinks by a copy, and
updating the databases but still the font is not found by file name).
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-17 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-15 16:44 Aditya Mahajan
2010-08-17 13:00 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-17 13:08 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-17 14:53 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-17 15:26 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-17 16:01 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-08-17 16:04 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-17 16:27 ` Michael Murphy
2010-08-18 10:57 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-18 11:01 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-18 11:06 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-18 19:03 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-08-18 20:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-08-18 22:30 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-18 22:35 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-18 22:36 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-18 22:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-08-18 22:50 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-18 22:57 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-18 11:04 ` Martin Althoff
2010-08-17 23:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
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