From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Changes in simplefonts
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:24:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B681966.7040208@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c1f1f861002020343y2a204a30nfa696739a7ff7c4@mail.gmail.com>
Am 02.02.10 12:43, schrieb John Haltiwanger:
> Hi all,
>
> So the following used to work perfectly, but no longer does:
>
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmainfont[Liberation-Serif]
>
> \starttext
>
> I feel so Liberated that {\ConTeXt} can see all my system fonts!
>
> \stoptext
>
> I don't seem to remember changing any configuration in order to get
> ConTeXt to see my system fonts (running ArchLinux, so it follows Linux
> standards). Yet now I cannot get the simplefonts module to see what it
> used to see fine. Has there been some backend changes so that *.ttf
> files on the system are now ignored? Do I need to install it to the
> ConTeXt directory or is there another alternative?
>
> (Updating my font database does nothing, unless 'luatools --generate'
> does not do this?)
For system fonts on Linux you need a entry the OSFONTDIR environment
variable,
how you can do this is explained here:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTex#Getting_access_to_the_system_fonts
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20091026.201256.cbd7927c.en.html
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20091027.062301.0a8817d0.en.html
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 11:43 John Haltiwanger
2010-02-02 12:24 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2010-02-02 13:35 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-02-02 14:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-02-02 14:18 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-02-02 14:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-02-02 14:34 ` John Haltiwanger
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