Re: xits font in ~/.fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 17-8-2010 6:01, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 17-8-2010 4:53, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>> On 17-8-2010 3:00, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The typescript uses file names, however ConTeXt can not load system
>>>>> fonts by filename. Hans, I think it would be nice to be able to load
>>>>> fonts by either font name or file name regardless of where they reside
>>>>> (I'm not sure how easy is that, though, with luaotfload and kpse setting
>>>>> OSFONTDIR is all what I need, since kpathsea appends it to its font
>>>>> searching paths).
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>>
>>>> \definedfont[vera at 50pt] test
>>>> \definedfont[file:vera.ttf at 100pt] test
>>>>
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> works quite ok on my machine and the log reports:
>>>>
>>>> <c:/windows/fonts/vera.ttf>
>>>>
>>>> so it must be something in the typescripts .. maybe the old names?
>>>
>>> This works for me, but not with .otf fonts.
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \definedfont[file:STIXGeneral at 100pt] test
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> <c:/windows/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf>
>
> I'm getting unpredictable results here, some fonts are found and some
> are not, but I can't identify a pattern, I thought it is related to
> symbolic links but could not prove it (replacing symlinks by a copy, and
> updating the databases but still the font is not found by file name).

files in OSFONTDIR normally are located runtime (no database) .. depends 
a bit on the configuration

Hans

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