Re: fonts and luatex

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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

it's rather trivial to support it

>   If fontconfig is correctly installed, you shouldn't need to do
> anything special: only run fc-list / configure fontconfig the normal way
> (probably by editing things like /etc/fonts/local.conf).

well, we only need the path in mkiv; personally i prefer setting an env 
var instead of editing yet another configuration file

>   This certainly is a good idea; I thought about it myself.  It could
> “unify” font searching with XeTeX (although it won't make the overall
> system easier to understand!).

i'll upload a beta that looks at the file; the relevant code is in 
font-syn; i.e. only named fonts will be seen because the file is not 
consulted otherwise

     local name = fonts.names.xml_configuration_file
     if name and not name == "" then
         local name = input.find_file(instance,name,"other")
         if name ~= "" then
             collect(xml.collect_texts(xml.load(name),"dir",true))
         end
     end

i'm wondering ... if a name is not found, i can regenerate the database 
at runtime. i had that for a while; maybe i should reinstate that

Hans


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