I did not set the OSFONTDIR. Once setting that to ~/.fonts and exporting the variable the fonts were found. I should have found this before. best, Salil --- On Sun, 8/29/10, Salil Sayed wrote: From: Salil Sayed Subject: [NTG-context] fonts on ubuntu in ~/.fonts directory are not recognised To: "Context users mailing list" Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 10:12 PM Hi, the command 'mtxrun --script fonts --reload' does not find fonts in /home/me/.fonts directory on ubuntu, or any system fonts for that matter. Consequently the fonts installed there are not used. The output is like below. Best, Salil MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix otf MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix OTF MTXrun | fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.009 seconds MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix ttf MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix TTF MTXrun | fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.000 seconds -----Inline Attachment Follows----- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki     : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________