Thanks, Pablo. I ran the script but it made no difference. Scheherazade New
was loaded with  ver: 2020.11.07 12:47 but not with ver: 2020.09.20 23:02

The console file for the latter shows:
selectfont      > the requested fallback font 'Scheherazade New' for
typeface 'mainface' style 'rm' was ignored because no files where found.
And yet Scheherazade New sits beside Scheherazade (which 2020.09.20 finds)
in ~/Fonts.

I fixed my definition of \definefallbackfamily—thanks for catching that.

Alan


On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 1:25 PM Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:

> On 11/7/20 6:58 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
> > Though Scheherazade New font loads properly with the today’s LMTX, I
> > cannot get it to load with LMTX from 2020.09.20 (which I must stay with
> > for now because the latest one has its own complaints about my files).
> >
> > \definefallbackfamily[mainface][][Scheherazade New]
> > [range=arabic]
> > \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][STIX Two Text]
> > \setupbodyfont [mainface, 24pt]
> >
> > \starttext
> > Arabic—ؼ
> >
> >  {\bf ؼ}
> > \stoptext
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I have just downloaded and compiled your sample:
>
> system          > ConTeXt  ver: 2020.09.20 23:02 LMTX  fmt: 2020.11.7
> int: english/english
> [...]
> mkiv lua stats  > loaded fonts: 4 files: scheherazadenew-bold.ttf,
> scheherazadenew-regular.ttf, stix2text-bold.otf, stix2text-regular.otf
>
> Please, run "mtxrun --script cache --erase &&  mtxrun --generate" and I
> think the new compilation will be fine. It seems to be that your
> previous ConTeXt version cannot find fonts installed later.
>
> BTW, "\definefallbackfamily[mainface][][Scheherazade New]" should read
> "\definefallbackfamily[mainface][rm][Scheherazade New]". But it doesn’t
> affect your issue.
>
> Just in case it helps,
>
> Pablo
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