Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:26, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 18-4-2012 10:44, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Imagine a project which ships both tex sources and fonts together in some SVN repository. It works perfectly fine if fonts are in the same folder as TeX documents, but if one wants some structure and put fonts in another folder, one has to install the font. There should be no need for users to install exotic fonts if document author can specify something like \setupfonts[directory=../fonts] on top of project file.
maybe some day ... as caching is somewhat special then (lookups by names as well) it's non trivial ... technically one can mount an additional pseudo tree already but even then it might conflict when working on shares that are used by multiple users (fonts defined with file: are less problematic, but name: lookups get messy)
For me it doesn't sound like a problem or a serious limitation if some project simply declares in which directory ConTeXt has to look for fonts and specifies the font with filename.
Yes I think this would be very useful too. -- John Devereux