From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41622 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Where is the fonts Directory of OpenSuse? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:39:12 +0200 Message-ID: <48515F40.9030408@wxs.nl> References: <1213265478.2nbfvk6sg94w@w2.mail.sapo.pt> <20080612144209.GC8400@khaled-laptop> <48514D10.6080907@wxs.nl> <20080612171332.GB24680@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213292453 12206 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2008 17:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 12 19:41:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K6qnZ-00065H-IO for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8FD1FCD3; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:40:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18160-04-6; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:39:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C2B1FC3E; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:39:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5EF1FC3E for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:39:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18160-04-5 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:39:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C794F1FB14 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:39:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 12363-1840426 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:39:16 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <20080612171332.GB24680@khaled-laptop> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41622 Archived-At: Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:21:36PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >> Khaled Hosny wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:11:18AM +0100, cidadaum@sapo.pt wrote: >>>> Can someone tell me please where the fonts directory of OpensSuse 10.3 (Kde) >>>> lies, so I can add my fonts to my bash profile? >>>> Thanks for your help. >>>> Armando >>> Fonts are usually under /user/share/fonts/, some distros (like debian) >>> has a separate subdir "truetype" for TrueType fonts. Users may added >>> fonts under ~/.fonts as well. >> so: ~/.fonts;/usr/share/fonts/;/usr/share/fonts/truetype ? > > I don't think this will work, since /usr/share/fonts and > /usr/share/fonts/truetype have multiple subdirs (per package) that has > the actuall fonts, does context look into subdirs as well or the top > dir only. > > What about querying fontconfig about installed fonts (which I guess what > XeTeX does under linux) this allows calling the font by the actual font > name not filename. When you has run mtxrun --script font --reload that file will be consulted too. After than you can access fonts by name by using a name: prefix, so name:mynamedfont With mtxrun --script font --list you can see what fontnames are accepted. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________