Re: Two questions about use of system ttf fonts

[weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg)]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:10:31 +0100

   Eythan Weg wrote:
   
   > What does context need to find the font?
   
   mtxrun --script font --reload
   
   will generate a font database which will provide access by name
   
   Hans

I created the table as suggested above and in the file names.tma appears a
line line like:

  ["caliban"]={ "ttf", "Caliban", "Caliban.ttf",  false },

I thought one might use 

\font\test=caliban at 12pt

but this fails:  

     Font \test=caliban at 12pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.


Now I remove the data base, and also the files 

   Caliban.tma
   Caliban.tmc

and define 

\font\test=Caliban at 12pt 

This works, provided that OSFONTDIR is well-defined in the shell.

Thank you.  eythan 


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