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From: John Haltiwanger <john.haltiwanger@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Changes in simplefonts
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:35:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c1f1f861002020535w47d9abx24ef981cf1abd020@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B681966.7040208@googlemail.com>


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Alright! Thanks Wolfgang!

However, I'm running into another weirdness: all the text is italicized.

See attached (and for Liberation fonts see your package manager or
https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/).

~~~~~~~~~
% context --version
MTXrun | main context file:
/home/serk17/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex
MTXrun | current version: 2010.02.01 11:19

% luatex --version
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2009122419
~~~~~~~~~~

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-02 13:35 UTC|newest]

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
2010-02-02 13:35   ` John Haltiwanger [this message]
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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