On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:50:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 29-7-2012 22:36, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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.
Last time I checked (more than a year ago) it did read that file.
What I have in mind is that it's far from being trivial to find the right fonts.conf, on linux in particular. On my mac I have:
/Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /Applications/MPlayer OSX Extended.app/Contents/Resources/fonts/fonts.conf /opt/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/conf.avail/05-osx-fonts.conf /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/conf.d/05-osx-fonts.conf /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/fonts.conf
So feel free to guess which one to use ;)
I believe that one should at least consider /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/fonts.conf & /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/conf.d/05-osx-fonts.conf in my case, but there is no "include the other file", so ConTeXt would actually have to start reading both.
fonts.conf should have something like:
<include ignore_missing="yes">conf.d</include>
Oh, sorry, that's right. I missed that one.
no? Here it does, otherwise fontconfig itself has no way of reading other files. But the whole thing is tricky, because the default path to the root fonts.conf file is set into libfontconfig at build time, ConTeXt has no way of knowing that, short of linking to libfontconfig.
The first two files are bundled with applications (Gimp, MPlayer) and aso have their own caches & their own settings, so when users start messing and configuring the system-wide settings, those two applications won't obey those anyway.
Which is very pointless, there should be only one fontconfig installed system wide, but that mac anyway :)
I might be wrong, but I tend to believe that Mac doesn't ship with fontconfig at all. Or rather, fontconfig is part of X11 only (which is part of OS X) and I've heard rumors that 10.8 doesn't ship with X11 by default. I believe it's the other way around: applications on Mac should not use fontconfig ;), but when they do (most of them being ported from linux), they cannot rely on fontconfig's presence on the system. It's more or less the same situation on windows. When you launch VLC, MPlayer, gnuplot/wxt or XeTeX after a long time, it spends the first minute refreshing font cache. Mojca