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b=kj81pzBDBEdqAv8s62XWrGJZKoifgFXiMEhmOQTcgyNhuScIlCenKfd9hkQ12JffXy 4GNmiEnPSn8xmCEE29hmhnzTIB1QQ85t1KssjvhoOdSikW3EoFF59XqwLnczI4FQKZNM EMT9GeC0+9Au0yHCaR3pzhsENI8WCU3Ol9/bk= Original-Received: by 10.227.134.129 with SMTP id j1mr2886197wbt.79.1282129036748; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([41.238.233.105]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a28sm111005wbe.3.2010.08.18.03.57.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:57:15 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6AB31F.2030109@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=74.125.82.45; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eCTKVhaC - f0af7257b88a - 20100818 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:61016 Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:04:47PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 17-8-2010 6:01, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >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: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>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 > >> > >> > > > >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). > > files in OSFONTDIR normally are located runtime (no database) .. > depends a bit on the configuration Dunno then, it is very confusing, some fonts are found by file name and some are not. Putting them in TEXMF tree makes them found. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________