From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: The best place to install fonts so it is discovered by mkiv?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:23:01 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910270219160.18841@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE602C8.8050300@bredband.net>
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Janneman wrote:
> According to an earlier and recent thread
>
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/20091021.090505.4153465c.en.html#20091021.090505.4153465c
>
> that finally were solved, thanks to Wolfgang and also Aditya. Here is a
> following question:
>
> Is there some convention where to place files, documents, fonts, modules and
> stuff?
>
> It seems in my case that LuaTools wasn't able to find the fonts in ~./fonts
> or even /usr/share/fonts. Not either in my
> minimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/fonts/ directory
> But I had to create texmf-project/fonts/.. to make context to discover the
> fonts.
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTex mentioned about setting
> osfontdir=....
> which I did in my my /home/user/.bash_profile linked to .bashrc
>
> cat .bash_profile
> PATH=$PATH:/home/janerik/bin
> . ~/context/tex/setuptex
> set OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts"
OSFONTDIR needs to be set before setuptex is loaded. To verify that the
value is set correctly, run
luatools --expand-var OSFONTDIR
Aditya
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