On Thu, 15 May 2014, Aíre Funvake wrote:
Hi all,
Never felt so incompetent in my life -- just cannot get LuaTeX to find fonts or `*.tex` files for use with `\input <filename>`, or `font\xxx = <font-or-filename>`. Even though, these commands were executed (all I could find):
mktexlsr mtxrun --script base --generate luatools --generate context --generate mtxrun --script fonts --update --force mtxrun --script fonts --udpate --simple
Tried putting files in (in the roots and subdirectories):
~/texmf ~/ctx/tex/texmf-project ~/ctx/tex/texmf-local ~/ctx/tex/texmf-fonts
Checked if the file could be found:
luatools --find-file xxxx.tex <--- finds it luatools --find-file xxx.otf <--- finds it mtxrun --locate xxxx.tex <--- finds it mtxrun --locate xxx.otf <--- finds it kpsewhich/where <--- finds only if in `~/texmf`
In .tex file (even when files are in `~/texmf` dir):
\input xxxx or xxxx.tex <--- no luck \font\myfont = name:xxxx <--- no luck \font\myfont = file:xxxx.otf <--- no luck
Sorry, but reading and searching for hours did not bring any solu- tion. Not sure if there is a configuration file like `texmf.cnf` or the `context.cnf` that must be modified, or and environment var- iable like `TEXMFHOME` (default seems to be `~/texmf`, and that's OK, if only it would only work).
Sorry to spam this list with questions which may seem very fundamental to you. Hope to be able to reciprocate sometime. What am I missing?
Read about TDS (TeX Directory Structure). You need to put files in $TEXMF/tex/plain/ subdirectory for Plain format to find it, or in $TEXMF/tex/generic/ subdirectory for all macro packages (plain, latex, context) to find it. Aditya