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From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Font recognition with command "context", but not with command "texexec"
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:36:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBOmsb2d8TDC32_20NOEopf+1RRxZNVNJb-NKU2R-k4k7d39w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50153D27.2060502@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
>
> Just curious: will ConTeXt use the fontconfig mechanism some day or are
> there technical/philosophical reasons not to?

Do you mean MKII or MKIV? For MKII the answer is no. MKIV can - to a
certain extent - read and interpret fontconfig's XML configuration
file. The real question is whether ConTeXt finds the right file. On
windows there is fonts.conf used by XeTeX and it might be that MKIV
reads that file, but I'm not sure.

There is no seriously technical reason, it's more that developers
aren't too eager to have dependencies on external libraries. And the
fact that at least on Windows and Mac the system fonts are being
searched for on their standard locations.

Mojca
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-29 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-28 19:11 Martin Rimmler
2012-07-29  7:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-29 13:39   ` Bill Meahan
2012-07-29 20:36     ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2012-07-29 23:05       ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-30  7:50         ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-30  9:06           ` Khaled Hosny
2012-07-30  9:16             ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-30 10:31               ` Khaled Hosny

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