From: "Olivier Guéry" <nemolivier@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: distro info
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:51:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c2c86e70806120051o86bbbbeu6ee1ffda189a9e3c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080611182219324539.0c7c303a@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:22 AM, David <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:37:11 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> David wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:34:15 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrea Valle wrote:
>>>>> Hmm, with Luatex I can use system fonts like in XeTeX. Am I right?
>>>> yes, if you set up OSFONTDIR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to set up OSFONTDIR, but I don't know how or where or when
>>> to do so. I've tried setting it in my bash profile, and that seems to
>>> have no effect. What is the correct procedure? (I'm on a Mac, if it
>>> matters.)
>>
>> we can consider setting it up automatically but that can only be done
>> when it's a stable location
>
>
> Well, that would be excellent from my point of view, of course. But my
> question is much more simple: I only want to know, where and when do I
> type "OSFONTDIR=..."?
>
> I've read many times that in order to use it I need to "set it up", but
> I actually don't know what "set it up" means in this situation.
>
It's a system variable.
Under Linux you can set it up in your /home/YOUR_NICKNAME/.bashrc file, adding :
export OSFONTDIR=THE_PATH_TO_YOUR_FONT_DIR
At the end of the file.
There's certainly the same under Mac.
Olivier.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 14:36 Andrea Valle
2008-06-10 14:43 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-10 15:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-10 15:30 ` Otared Kavian
2008-06-10 15:34 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 17:21 ` David
2008-06-10 17:37 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 20:31 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-12 1:22 ` David
2008-06-12 7:51 ` Olivier Guéry [this message]
2008-06-12 8:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-10 15:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-10 20:27 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-10 21:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-11 12:09 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2008-06-11 14:55 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-11 16:05 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-11 16:55 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-11 20:43 ` Jesse Alama
2008-06-12 9:00 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-13 16:40 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-13 17:08 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-13 18:01 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-13 18:20 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-13 18:26 ` Matthias Weber
2008-06-13 19:23 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-13 17:57 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-06-14 11:07 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2008-06-14 11:35 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-06-14 13:57 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-14 17:36 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-06-14 21:38 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-14 23:32 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-14 14:19 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2008-06-14 16:35 ` Jesse Alama
2008-06-14 18:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-14 23:05 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-06-15 0:41 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-15 1:36 ` Matthias Weber
2008-06-15 9:40 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-30 5:27 ` Jesse Alama
2008-06-30 7:03 ` Alan Stone
2008-06-30 8:20 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-30 16:21 ` George N. White III
2008-06-14 11:48 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-14 13:55 ` John Culleton
2008-06-17 16:02 ` searchable pdf in mkii, usepdffontresource stub Oleg Kolosov
2008-06-17 16:34 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-17 18:55 ` Oleg Kolosov
2008-06-17 19:13 ` Hans Hagen
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