On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:54:06PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 30/05/2010, at 9:02 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> > - What happens with font duplicates? For example OS X contains the usual 
> > Microsoft Office fonts in .ttf format in /Library/Fonts, but upon 
> > installation Office installs its own versions, often in old FFIL suitcase 
> > format, in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft. I resolved the duplicates manually in 
> > Font Book by disactivating the Microsoft versions, but what happens with 
> > mkluatexfontdb?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, mkluatexfontdb will only use the first of a set 
> of duplicate fonts; it doesn't attempt to detect which is newer or anything 
> like that.

Not exactly, the last seen font is the only one considered, so if you
have a font under /usr/share/fonts and another version under ~/.fonts,
the later is the one ends in the database, if this isn't what you are
getting, then it is a bug.
 
Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer

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