Re: Linux Libertine type

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:07:37PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:34:37PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>>>> ConTeXt doesn't use fontconfig for detecting installed fonts, try to set
>>>>> OSFONTDIR to point where your fonts are, then run:
>>>>> mtxrun -script fonts -reload
>>>>>
>>>>> Hans, is it possible to read fontconfig files to detect font directories
>>>>> on linux, it is xml files and we would be interested in <dir> and
>>>>> <include> tags only.
>>>> it does, given that the file can be found someplace in the tree (i 
>>>> added  a log message so that one can see of it is found)
>>> The standard places for fontconfig files are ~/fonts.conf and
>>> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, any other file is included from there, so may be
>>> it should check for those two by default (if it doesn't already).
>> no, not there but before I even start thinking about adding that we need  
>> to investigate all places as i'm pretty sure that on the mac it's  
>> different (somehow 'standard' in practice is never 'standard') and  
>> there's also the order to consider, one, more, and in what order then
> 
> What I wrote above is for linux (I assumed the code is checks for OS and
> sets default font paths), /etc/fonts/font.conf is read first followed by
> any files included from it, then ~/.fonts.conf so that user can override
> system settings.
> (http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html has more details)

well, even the user file has to be specified so we can

- first look for a config file in the tex tree
- and if not found then load the etc one

i've added some logic to the locator but i didn't not test it (the linux 
servers are production machines that i don't want to touch and i have no 
time anyway)

Hans


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