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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