On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:59:28 -0400 john Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 > Philipp Gesang <philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > > > Hi John! > > > > ···<date: 2013-07-26, Friday>···<from: john Culleton>··· > > > > > 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? > > > > > 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. > > I'll try the sudo fc-cache -fv route and see what happens. > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > _ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
