Hi everybody, just a short question: I was under the impression that ConTeXt would not look for system fonts unless we set OSFONTDIR explicitly; this appears to be the basis of the page Use_the_fonts_you_want on the wiki, and I prefer this behavior because it lets me control the fonts I want to use. Recently, however (when exactly? I don't know.) this seems to have changed, and ConTeXt now searches the system font directories by default. I found this out because one of my documents is set up to use the STIX2 fonts. In the most recent versions of macos, some files of these fonts are included as system fonts under /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental, but not all of them. It took me some head scratching to figure out why every run complained about missing glyphs until I saw that ConTeXt was using the wrong font. I had to set the variable OSFONTDIR to some value to prevent this from happening. So my question is: is looking for system fonts by default the new standard? Is it a good idea? Thank you and all best Thomas
Hi everybody,
just a short question: I was under the impression that ConTeXt would not look for system fonts unless we set OSFONTDIR explicitly; this appears to be the basis of the page Use_the_fonts_you_want on the wiki, and I prefer this behavior because it lets me control the fonts I want to use. Recently, however (when exactly? I don't know.) this seems to have changed, and ConTeXt now searches the system font directories by default. I found this out because one of my documents is set up to use the STIX2 fonts. In the most recent versions of macos, some files of these fonts are included as system fonts under /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental, but not all of them. It took me some head scratching to figure out why every run complained about missing glyphs until I saw that ConTeXt was using the wrong font. I had to set the variable OSFONTDIR to some value to prevent this from happening. So my question is: is looking for system fonts by default the new standard? Is it a good idea?
Thank you and all best it is a tex live thing; you can just set that variable to nothing, in
On 7/19/2023 10:27 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: the environment or in a local file like in ../tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua normally texmf-fonts is where i put fonts and that one should win Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 7/19/23 22:51, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
On 7/19/2023 10:27 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
[...] In the most recent versions of macos, some files of these fonts are included as system fonts under /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental, but not all of them. It took me some head scratching to figure out why every run complained about missing glyphs until I saw that ConTeXt was using the wrong font. I had to set the variable OSFONTDIR to some value to prevent this from happening. So my question is: is looking for system fonts by default the new standard? Is it a good idea?
normally texmf-fonts is where i put fonts and that one should win
To solve this issues (since I use my private directory for fonts), I created a symlink for my main font directory in $HOME/texmf/texmf-fonts/. Before that, I had the symlink inside the LMTX distribution. Just in case it might help, Pablo
On 19/07/23 19/07/23, 22:51, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
is looking for system fonts by default the new standard? Is it a good idea?
Thank you and all best it is a tex live thing; you can just set that variable to nothing, in the environment or in a local file like in
../tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
normally texmf-fonts is where i put fonts and that one should win
A TeX-live thing can be the default for TeX live. I agree with Thomas, not explicitly including the system fonts by default is preferable. Maybe the standalone installation still does this - I hope so - but have not checked. If it defauts to including the system fonts, I would suggest that this is not necessarily a good idea. Alan
Thomas, I actually set OSFONTDIR=. which seems to be a sane default. I store specific font files with projects (along with a copy of the ConTeXt distribution used to typeset the project). This way, I can come back to a project later and make minor corrections without running into surprises or the need to update my sources. Alan On 21/07/23 21/07/23, 16:43, Alan Braslau wrote:
On 19/07/23 19/07/23, 22:51, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
is looking for system fonts by default the new standard? Is it a good idea?
Thank you and all best it is a tex live thing; you can just set that variable to nothing, in the environment or in a local file like in
../tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
normally texmf-fonts is where i put fonts and that one should win
A TeX-live thing can be the default for TeX live.
I agree with Thomas, not explicitly including the system fonts by default is preferable. Maybe the standalone installation still does this - I hope so - but have not checked. If it defauts to including the system fonts, I would suggest that this is not necessarily a good idea.
Alan
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