Re: fonts (in luatex) (again)

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Andrea Valle wrote:
> But, Hans, in the post Mojca says I have the same problem:)
> uh?

In font-syn.lua there is
    local pathlist = fonts.names.getpaths()

This used to contain some hard-coded paths for Mac users, but then
Hans switched to reading fonts.conf with

    -- name is "fonts.conf"
    local name = fonts.names.xml_configuration_file or ""
    if name ~= "" then
        -- this works on Hans' computer, but not here; name becomes empty
        local name = input.find_file(name,"other")
        -- so this loop is never entered and system fonts are never read
        if name ~= "" then
            collect(xml.collect_texts(xml.load(name),"dir",true))
        end
    end

I guess that Hans has a fonts.conf in his TeX tree, while Linux & Mac
users don't, and luaTeX doesn't know where to look for fonts.conf.
What's worse: I suspect that OSFONTSDIR might be completely ignored.

No, don't ask me where fonts.conf should be. Mine are at
    /Users/mojca/.fonts.conf
    /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
but I have no idea what's the proper/default location if any.


The /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf one says:

<!--
  Load per-user customization file
-->
  <include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>

<!--
  Load local system customization file
-->
  <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>

So I guess that's where the other one gets included.

Mojca

> -a-
> On 3 Jul 2008, at 00:09, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> Andrea Valle wrote:
>
> Ah.
> So, what the mail by Mojca meant?
> the one starting with:
> Hans,
> I thought that it had worked some time ago, but it seems that it's
> broken. OPENTYPEFONTS seems the right folders, but doesn't find files
> in them.
> ....
>
> that something is broken om mojca's machine but we're working on it
> (when we have a spare moment)
> Hans
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