Re: [NTG-context] fonts (in luatex) (again)

3 Jul 2008


      On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Mojca Miklavec
 wrote:
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Mojca Miklavec
 wrote:
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Andrea Valle wrote:
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But, Hans, in the post Mojca says I have the same problem:)
uh?
In font-syn.lua there is
   local pathlist = fonts.names.getpaths()
This used to contain some hard-coded paths for Mac users, but then
Hans switched to reading fonts.conf with
-- name is "fonts.conf"
   local name = fonts.names.xml_configuration_file or ""
   if name ~= "" then
       -- this works on Hans' computer, but not here; name becomes empty
       local name = input.find_file(name,"other")
       -- so this loop is never entered and system fonts are never read
       if name ~= "" then
           collect(xml.collect_texts(xml.load(name),"dir",true))
       end
   end
I guess that Hans has a fonts.conf in his TeX tree, while Linux & Mac
users don't, and luaTeX doesn't know where to look for fonts.conf.
What's worse: I suspect that OSFONTSDIR might be completely ignored.
No, don't ask me where fonts.conf should be. Mine are at
   /Users/mojca/.fonts.conf
   /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
but I have no idea what's the proper/default location if any.
$TEXMF/fonts/conf/fonts.conf
For XeTeX on Windows, yes. But not on other platforms.
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The /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf one says:
<!--
 Load per-user customization file
-->
 <include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>
<!--
 Load local system customization file
-->
 <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>
So I guess that's where the other one gets included.
But you need fonts.conf only for XeTeX, LuaTeX (better MkIV) could
find the fonts with the predefined paths in mtxrun.
"could" could be read as "should" :)
But on the other hand, reading fonts.conf does make sense (if you know
where to look for it). It means that you get all the font paths
properly set by default already.
Could make sense.
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elseif name == "macosx" then
       fix("OSFONTDIR",
"$HOME/Library/Fonts//;/Library/Fonts//;/System/Library/Fonts//")
   else
OSFONT[S]DIR (I always forget which one) does get set. But did you try
to use any fonts from there? Do they work (with a recent ConTeXt
version)?
Last beta with delicoius fonts in $HOME/Library/Fonts has worked.

Wolfgang