The best place to install fonts so it is discovered by mkiv?

The best place to install fonts so it is discovered by mkiv?

[Janneman]

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"


It seems to have no effect.

Very strange! :-(

Here is my output from Luatools --generate command

LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/texmf
LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-project
LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-fonts
LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-local
LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-context
LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-linux
LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-extra
LuaTools | fileio: locating list of /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf
LuaTools | fileio: scanning path /home/janerik/context/tex/texmf-local


It seems to only search these directories.

All best

Janneman


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Re: The best place to install fonts so it is discovered by mkiv?

[Aditya Mahajan]

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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