From: Philipp Gesang <Philipp.Gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130726203810.GA31089@phlegethon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130726150839.5988e629@wexfordpress>
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Hi John!
···<date: 2013-07-26, Friday>···<from: john Culleton>···
> I am tryihg to follow the wiki on "Fonts in Luatex." It suggests the
> following statement for Linux systems:
>
> export OSFONTDIR="/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts"
>
> But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used:
>
> export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts"
>
> The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts used
> with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user signon. I
> examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc files and
> deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I still have no
> gui fonts.
Can you clarify what you mean by “wipe out”? Were the font files
deleted? Are other kinds of fonts (e.g. bitmap/pfb) still
working?
> If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that
> would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I
> really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that
> won't wipe out my gui fonts.
OSFONTDIR is a tex specific (kpathsea and Context) variable that
I don’t think is used by the system (fontconfig, desktop
environment). While you were fiddling with font paths, is it
possible that you accidentally modified something else, like
~/.config/fontconfig or /etc/fonts/* ?
Best regards,
Philipp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-26 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-26 19:08 john Culleton
2013-07-26 20:15 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-07-26 20:24 ` Mica Semrick
2013-07-27 14:34 ` john Culleton
2013-07-27 16:00 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-07-26 20:38 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2013-07-27 1:59 ` john Culleton
2013-07-28 23:29 ` john Culleton
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