From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Font recognition with command "context", but not with command "texexec"
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5015C1AB.6040101@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsb2d8TDC32_20NOEopf+1RRxZNVNJb-NKU2R-k4k7d39w@mail.gmail.com>
On 29-7-2012 22:36, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
>>
>> Just curious: will ConTeXt use the fontconfig mechanism some day or are
>> there technical/philosophical reasons not to?
>
> Do you mean MKII or MKIV? For MKII the answer is no. MKIV can - to a
> certain extent - read and interpret fontconfig's XML configuration
> file. The real question is whether ConTeXt finds the right file. On
> windows there is fonts.conf used by XeTeX and it might be that MKIV
> reads that file, but I'm not sure.
Last time I checked (more than a year ago) it did read that file. You
can check that with
\enabletrackers[fonts.names]
when the database is generated.
> There is no seriously technical reason, it's more that developers
> aren't too eager to have dependencies on external libraries. And the
> fact that at least on Windows and Mac the system fonts are being
> searched for on their standard locations.
Or: "the developers never check that as they don't depend on system
fonts in projects" (I always copy font files to known locations i.e.
texmf-fonts).
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-29 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-28 19:11 Martin Rimmler
2012-07-29 7:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-29 13:39 ` Bill Meahan
2012-07-29 20:36 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-29 23:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-07-30 7:50 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-30 9:06 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-07-30 9:16 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-30 10:31 ` Khaled Hosny
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