Hi Everybody,
Please excuse my ignorance of 'linux' and ConTeXt gathering of fonts.
I understand that linux is not linux and unix is not unix.
My question is what would happen if a path in OSFONTDIR does not exist?
If the path is gracefully ignored and the overhead is not to great maybe we
could add some of the more common locations of the more common (l)unixes.
Also, is there a utility to gather fonts in X11 or other GUIs that finds the fonts on a system?
Maybe that can be leveraged.
Just a thought.
regards
Keith.
Am 15.10.2013 um 23:50 schrieb Hans Hagen
On 10/15/2013 11:15 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 10/15/2013 10:23 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
[...] On my system it is NOT /usr/share/fonts so this would be inappropriate.
Thanks for your reply, Alan.
I must be missing something, because I think that adding /usr/share/fonts to your system would be simply ineffective.
And, as Luigi suggested, it is not always a very good idea to mix OS system fonts and TeX fonts. Currently, the user can achieve this if desired by setting OSFONTDIR.
Sorry, but I don’t get what you mean (neither I got what Luigi meant).
I don’t mix system and TeX fonts. I mainly use system fonts with ConTeXt.
I still don’t understand what could be wrong in using system fonts in ConTeXt (or mixing them with the ones that come in ConTeXt Standalone).
I simply don’t get why OSFONTDIR is set for Windows and MacOSX users and not for Linux users.
Which is the reason for this difference?
because on windows it's standardized and on linux it isn't so we would end up in discussions about the right setting (and indeed we already had those discussions)
Hans
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