On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Mojca Miklavec
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Andrea Valle wrote:
>> But, Hans, in the post Mojca says I have the same problem:)
>> uh?
>
> In font-syn.lua there is
> local pathlist = fonts.names.getpaths()
>
> This used to contain some hard-coded paths for Mac users, but then
> Hans switched to reading fonts.conf with
>
> -- name is "fonts.conf"
> local name = fonts.names.xml_configuration_file or ""
> if name ~= "" then
> -- this works on Hans' computer, but not here; name becomes empty
> local name = input.find_file(name,"other")
> -- so this loop is never entered and system fonts are never read
> if name ~= "" then
> collect(xml.collect_texts(xml.load(name),"dir",true))
> end
> end
>
> I guess that Hans has a fonts.conf in his TeX tree, while Linux & Mac
> users don't, and luaTeX doesn't know where to look for fonts.conf.
> What's worse: I suspect that OSFONTSDIR might be completely ignored.
>
> No, don't ask me where fonts.conf should be. Mine are at
> /Users/mojca/.fonts.conf
> /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> but I have no idea what's the proper/default location if any.
$TEXMF/fonts/conf/fonts.conf
> The /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf one says:
>
> <!--
> Load per-user customization file
> -->
> <include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>
>
> <!--
> Load local system customization file
> -->
> <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>
>
> So I guess that's where the other one gets included.
But you need fonts.conf only for XeTeX, LuaTeX (better MkIV) could
find the fonts with the predefined paths in mtxrun.
elseif name == "macosx" then
fix("OSFONTDIR",
"$HOME/Library/Fonts//;/Library/Fonts//;/System/Library/Fonts//")
else
Regards
Wolfgang
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