From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77642 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font recognition with command "context", but not with command "texexec" Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:15 +0200 Message-ID: <5015C1AB.6040101@wxs.nl> References: <50143956.7040208@gmail.com> <898BA0E1-27D9-4180-8436-556C2D2C3126@gmail.com> <50153D27.2060502@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343603127 15197 80.91.229.3 (29 Jul 2012 23:05:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mojca Miklavec To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 30 01:05:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SvcYA-0002QR-FA for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B9310249; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:25 +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 jTaSP2ycVndy; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719A7101EA; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325E8101EA for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:20 +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 22fAXOlJ7DsI for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:18 +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 F224A101DD for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q6TN5HrZ003368 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:17 +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 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 840-1713362 for multiple; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:05:14 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: 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=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0QHEn5hsn - 3daa7c3038f3 - 20120730 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:77642 Archived-At: 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). 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