Pablo Rodriguez
On 11/19/2015 09:15 PM, Carlos wrote:
Pablo, simply put, the system fonts, with the module simplefonts, can't be found.
Was OSFONTDIR exported? Yes. Was the path specified correctly? Yes. In my case was /usr/share/fonts
Which is the output from "kpsewhich --var-value=OSFONTDIR"?
I no longer have the ubuntu installation Pablo. 'please/set/osfontdir/environment/ I can start all over again and install it, and remove all TeX Live remnants. Although the issue here: is with the ubuntu packaged version. Texlive from ctan has no problems whatsoever
AfaIk, you should get /usr/share/fonts// (double slash to handle subdirectories).
Double slash? That's a new one. Although not surprising. Have you heard of the go language by Google? They had some issues with it at one point.
What command was used afterward? The mtxrun --script fonts --reload.
You could try (after fixing path above when needed) "mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force".
Yes. I did the above. It made no difference.
Did you try other commands? Yes. Most notably context --generate, context --make, luatools.
I think these are unrelated tools (although I’m not an expert).
I was back and forth comparing one system (x64) with the (i386), and all I was trying to do, was to zero out incompatibilities among the two.
When was the first time the condition appeared? Some time last week, after reading complaints from other computer users, who think texlive as it's currently distributed, is disrespectful to users, e.g. most people would not need every other package out there. (Of course, the above is just not correct). But the other most readily option, is to install the packaged distribution for ubuntu. The latter is what I did.
For ConTeXt, I think it is better you use the ConTeXt Suite (an standalone ConTeXt distribution).
As a matter of fact, I don’t have TeX Live (or LaTeX) installed. I only use the ConTeXt Suite (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone).
I've never had issues with texlive itself. Just with the packaged one for ubuntu.
I hope it helps (complain back, if it doesn’t :-)),
I'll gladly remove texlive and reinstall the ubuntu version. Thankfully I don't have dialup now.
Pablo
Thank you Pablo.