Re: The requested font has no files for the 'tf' alternative

From: Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: The requested font has no files for the 'tf' alternative
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:13:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170310001359.GB988@smoon.vl-lomov.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170309103334.29dcdb6a@homerow>

Hello
** Marco Patzer [2017-03-09 10:33:34 +0100]:

> Hi!
> 
> I run into a problem using some fonts. Latin Modern is used instead
> and ConTeXt displays:
> 
>   selectfont > The requested font 'Caecilia LT Std Roman' has no files for the 'tf' alternative, Latin Modern is used instead.
> 
> Example:
> 
> \definefontfamily
>   [mainface]
>   [rm]
>   [Caecilia LT Std Roman]
>   %% doesn't work, either
>   %% [tf=file:CaeciliaLTStd-Roman.otf]
> 
> \setupbodyfont [mainface]
> 
> \starttext
>   %% \definedfont [name:CaeciliaLTStd-Roman] %% this works
>   \input knuth
> \stoptext
> 
> The font is in the database:
> 
>   mtxrun -script fonts -list -all caecilia
> 
> This happens with other fonts too, not only Caecilia. Some fonts
> work, others don't. Couldn't find anything on the list, so I might
> be doing something wrong here. What's the issue here?
> 
> context: 2017.03.02 22:23
> 
> Marco

Some time ago I faced the same problem: I tried to use one of Microsoft
font but it didn't work, the only thing I saw in log was the same
message. I solved the problem by deleting "font cache"
  luatex-cache/context/HASH/fonts
and generating it again
  mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force
(may be with '--force' option you may not delete the "cache" but it
didn't hurt anyway).

Hope this will help you.

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