On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Simon Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 18.05.2010, at 17:55, [email protected] wrote: > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:14:35PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote: > > osx: > > /System/Library/Fonts//;/Network/Library/Fonts//;/Library/Fonts// > > > You probably also want $HOME/Library/Fonts// there. > > > I am not enthused about embedding system directories in our texmf.cnf, > > which will inevitably change without warning with os releases, cause > > weird problems/slowdowns for some users because their setups aren't the > > same as yours, etc. > > > AFAIK, those are the only documented font directories by Apple and > Microsoft and are unlikely to change or be different between OS versions > etc. I also, naively, thought that since texmf.cnf is a configuration > file it is more appropriate place to store such configuration items > rather than hardcoding them into luaotfload, and in is easier to update > a configuration file than releasing a new version of a package, or so I > thought. > > > I see one not so small potential problem here: There are various font > managers for OSX which store their fonts in non standard locations (for > example, I use FontExplorer X Pro). Still, these programs make their fonts > available to all apps which use the standard system APIs. I'd claim that > such managers might not be so rare among (La)TeX users since they often care > about their fonts. But these managed fonts wouldn't be available to LuaLaTeX > … > > simon > > Right now, we cannot support such setups, users of these tools need to set OSFONTDIR manually then, but we can at least try tosupport the more standard locations. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
