Re: fonts (in luatex) (again)

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

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Mojca Miklavec
> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> $TEXMF/fonts/conf/fonts.conf

For XeTeX on Windows, yes. But not on other platforms.

>> 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.
>
> But you need fonts.conf only for XeTeX, LuaTeX (better MkIV) could
> find the fonts with the predefined paths in mtxrun.

"could" could be read as "should" :)
But on the other hand, reading fonts.conf does make sense (if you know
where to look for it). It means that you get all the font paths
properly set by default already.

>    elseif name == "macosx" then
>        fix("OSFONTDIR",
> "$HOME/Library/Fonts//;/Library/Fonts//;/System/Library/Fonts//")
>    else

OSFONT[S]DIR (I always forget which one) does get set. But did you try
to use any fonts from there? Do they work (with a recent ConTeXt
version)?

Mojca
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