On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:15:58 +0200 Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

On 26/07/13 21:08, john Culleton wrote:

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I am trying to follow the wiki on "Fonts in Luatex." It suggests the following statement for Linux systems:

export OSFONTDIR="/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts"

But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used:

export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts"

Hi John,

sorry to read that.

Using the ConTeXt Suite the command I use is:

export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts//"

But I append it at the end of tex/setuptex.

I’m afraid I cannot help you with the system fonts, because I don’t use ConTeXt from TeXLive 2013.

All I guess is removing all OSFONTDIR from your configuration. (Running "grep -irl "OSFONTDIR" ." on your home directory should do the searching job.)

Sorry for not being more helpful.

I hope it helps,

Pablo

Hmm. Why do you use // at the end of the statement? Does that have some kind of magic? John Culleton

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:59:28 -0400 john Culleton wrote:

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 Philipp Gesang wrote:

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Hi John!

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I am tryihg to follow the wiki on "Fonts in Luatex." It suggests the following statement for Linux systems:

export OSFONTDIR="/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts"

But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used:

export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts"

The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts used with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user signon. I examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc files and deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I still have no gui fonts.

Can you clarify what you mean by “wipe out”? Were the font files deleted? Are other kinds of fonts (e.g. bitmap/pfb) still working?

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If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that won't wipe out my gui fonts.

OSFONTDIR is a tex specific (kpathsea and Context) variable that I don’t think is used by the system (fontconfig, desktop environment). While you were fiddling with font paths, is it possible that you accidentally modified something else, like ~/.config/fontconfig or /etc/fonts/* ?

Best regards, Philipp

When signed on as my usual username and I fire up the gui I get squares instead of characters. It works OK if I sign on as an alternate user or root.

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My solution to the missing or miscalled gui fonts is to reestablish Slackware Linux 14 on a new partition and copy pertinent stuff over. Everything is OK so far. I used texlive 2013 since it is simpler to setup and use then stand alone context. My solution to the original problem was suggested in part by a reply on comp.text.tex newsgroup. Basically I gave up on trying to cajole context/luatex to use the fonts I have in /usr/share/fonts/OTF. Instead I copied the ones I need for this project into texmf-local/fonts. And I didn't use any subdirectory structure. Having been burned once I did not use OSFONTDIR at all. Instead I used these methods: context --generate mtxrun--script fonts --reload mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=Minion* and the same except for my sanserif choice Myriad Now I am in business. John Culleton