Re: xits font in ~/.fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 18-8-2010 9:03, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dunno then, it is very confusing, some fonts are found by file name and
>>>> some are not. Putting them in TEXMF tree makes them found.
>>>
>>> Wild guess: could it be related to the dot in ".fonts" ?
>>
>> Other fonts in that directory are found, font names works for all fonts
>> there too.
>>
>
> May I chime in here? Hans, a couple of weeks ago, I reported a similar problem: none of the fonts in my personal texmf-trees ends up in the database. I can still reproduce the problem:
>
> luatools AGaramondPro-Regular.otf
> /Users/tas/texmf/fonts/opentype/adobe/agaramond/AGaramondPro-Regular.otf
>
> mtxrun --script fonts --list --all "agaramond*"
>
> (i.e. nothing found). I can only use all these personal fonts via the file: syntax; name: does not work. Maybe these problems are related? Something's not quite kosher in the font database...

ah, this could be because a runtime scanned tree is not scanned for 
fonts in the database; this is somewhat disputable as such a tree is not 
expected to be stable i.e. files can come and go

i can look into it but now now (no time now) and only if there is no 
performance penalty

it's why I would always make a local tree 'databased'

Hans


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