From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60989 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: xits font in ~/.fonts Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4C6AB31F.2030109@wxs.nl> References: <20100817130018.GA19503@khaled-laptop> <4C6A89C7.9090508@wxs.nl> <20100817145331.GE20956@khaled-laptop> <4C6AAA1B.80808@wxs.nl> <20100817160144.GA21509@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282061101 20221 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 16:05:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Khaled Hosny Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 17 18:04:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlOel-0000za-BZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C12BCA566; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Pfg5ui9X6nuG; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829CFCA562; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93878CA562 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id C+OOvB2tByTa for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A53ACA246 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (sc-162.r-213-125-29.schoolconnect.nu [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o7HG4kZ1016988 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:04:46 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 6441-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:02:52 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20100817160144.GA21509@khaled-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rCTs4KJq - bf4eba1fc5b4 - 20100817 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:60989 Archived-At: 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: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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 >> >> > > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________