From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Woe is me :<( mkiv misbehaving.
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:43:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130610144343.7f0444f7@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D17F322-336A-4AEE-99CA-E722DE83CFE9@gmail.com>
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:41:50 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 09.06.2013 um 14:24 schrieb john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>:
>
> > I solved the wierd messages by a brute force method. I created a
> > fresh slackware partition and whatever I did wrong was eliminated.
> > Now, down to the fonts; the directory /usr/share/fonts and its
> > subdirectories is a standard place to put fonts on a Linux system.
> > Most of my other programs (Inkscape, Scribus) find those fonts
> > without difficulty. I checked my permissions in that directory and
> > subdirectories and they are not restrictive. I will link those
> > fonts to a directory that Context searches. I just wonder why it
> > worked before and not now.
>
> You have set the directories with the OSFONTDIR variable:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX#Building_the_font_database
>
> Wolfgang
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
That worked! still don't know why I lost access to those fonts but no
matter. And after some mtxrun executions the weird messages went away
too. So I can revert to my original partition which saves a lot of
labor.
Most sincere thanks to all who answered.
--
John Culleton
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-08 18:45 john Culleton
2013-06-08 20:02 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-09 12:24 ` john Culleton
2013-06-09 12:41 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-06-10 18:43 ` john Culleton [this message]
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