On 5/30/2015 3:05 PM, Élie Roux wrote:
An issue[0] was raised recently, from a user who had fonts installed
under Windows, recognized by his softwares but not LuaTeX (nor XeTeX).
Apparently[1] the fonts are installed through a mechanism documented by
MS[2] consisting in adding the font in the list of fonts in the Windows
Registry.
did the user update the font database
Yes, but would that make any difference? If a user has a font in a
non-standard directory and the font is only referenced in the registry,
I don't think ConTeXt could find it?
that would be a pretty fragile setup (and makes support in case of
problems hard)
such a dll would add yet another dependency (even worse: on an operating
system)
Not very satisfying indeed...
personally i'd never rely on this as for long term stable processing it
makes sense to know what font (file) you use and where it sits
Sure, but users expectations are often surprising...
well, if they use tex they should realize that there can be many
resources involved and that a bit of resource management helps to avoid
unwanted results
anyway, a dll is not needed as one can do this:
local command = [[reg QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts"]]
local pattern = ".-[\n\r]+%s+(.-)%s%(([^%)]+)%)%s+REG_SZ%s+(%S+)%s+"
local function getnamesfromregistry()
local data = os.resultof(command)
local list = { }
for name, format, filename in string.gmatch(data,pattern) do
list[name] = filename
end
return list
end
This is brilliant, I think it's the best solution so far. I don't know
much (if anything) about Windows, so I'd never have been to find it out
myself!
Hans
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