Re: fonts and luatex

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Olivier Guéry wrote:
>>  I can run context, but some otf fonts can't be find, like the nice
>>  linuxlibertine, for exemple (context used to find it with xetex).
> 
> Hello Oliver,
> 
> XeTeX finds fonts using fc-config, and fc-config usually knows about
> all your system-wide-installed fonts, while you first need to tell
> LuaTeX where your fonts reside. (LuaTeX is not aware of any
> system-specific folders.)

indeed, and i'm not going to hard code paths

> You might need something like
>     export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts

right, at least on windows this works

(i think that i wrote a fc-whatever parser but then one needs to tell 
where it lives etc etc)

Hans

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