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