On 19/05/2010, at 8:34 AM, Karl Berry wrote: > One thing that comes to mind is that we (that is, install-tl) could set, > not OSFONTDIR, but OSFONTDIR.lualatex. Then the value couldn't affect > non-lualatex users. and it would be a way to get experience with how > well these directories really work.
Without (personally) knowing how ConTeXt is using this env variable, this seems quite prudent, if that (being the use of a texmf.cnf assignment) is the option we end up choosing. > Hardwiring the directory list in luaotfload would achieve the same thing > and does not actually sound like a bad thing to me. Do you already have > platform-specific code there? Yes, at the moment, but Khaled was trying (I think) to avoid this situation. I'm fine with keeping the directories hard-wired into luaotfload at least for now. Thanks, -- Will
