From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: LMTX mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force isn't finding fonts in tex/texmf-fonts
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:56:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61ddfca5-d680-ec78-6f77-e74b00c93680@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C4D4C22-C460-440F-B3EF-1BB82BFCB107@fiee.net>
On 7/28/2021 1:45 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>
>> Am 28.07.2021 um 11:46 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>:
>>
>> On 7/28/2021 10:31 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>>>> Am 28.07.2021 um 08:50 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>:
>>>>
>>>> On 7/27/2021 11:44 PM, T. Kurt Bond via ntg-context wrote:
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>> I'm trying to get LMTX to use my fonts on Fedora 33 Linux. I've got LMTX installed in the directory /sw/versions/context/lmtx and I've put copies of the fonts I'd like to use in /sw/versions/context/lmtx/tex/texmf-fonts. Some of them are truetype and some of them are opentype. When I run
>>>>> mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force
>>>>> it says
>>>>> fonts | names | scanning path
>>>>> '/sw/versions/context/lmtx/tex/texmf-fonts' for otf files
>>>>> fonts | names | 0 otf files checked, okay
>>>>> and later
>>>>> fonts | names | scanning path
>>>>> '/sw/versions/context/lmtx/tex/texmf-fonts' for ttf files
>>>>> fonts | names | 0 ttf files checked, okay
>>>>> Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> did you add the /fonts subpath?
>>>>
>>>> /sw/versions/context/lmtx/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/data
>>>>
>>>> i normally put them in
>>>>
>>>> data/whatever/whataverer*.otf
>>>>
>>>> (data is kind of generic, there is no need to distinguish between various font types)
>>> When I added your “Lost in fonts” article to the CGJ, I did exactly that with the included TYFA* fonts.
>>> They were not recognized in the same folder as the article or in texmf-fonts/fonts/data/tyfa, even after several force reloads; they were only found when I added them to the system font directory (~/Library/Fonts on MacOS).
>> did you also do mtxrun --generate beforehand?
>
> I didn’t because that’s part of the install script, isn’t it? I run that more or less daily.
>
> But it doesn’t change anything – deleted the fonts from Library, they’re still in texmf-fonts, --generate, --reload --force => fonts not found.
>
> Since my texmf-fonts is a symlink (to avoid the same tree in several installations), I also checked if a “real” directory solves the problem – no.
No clue ... maybe --verbose helps ... i assume that mtxrun --generate
shows the path being seen.
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-27 21:44 T. Kurt Bond via ntg-context
2021-07-28 6:50 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-07-28 8:31 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-07-28 9:46 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-07-28 11:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-07-28 12:56 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
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