On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 17-8-2010 4:53, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>On 17-8-2010 3:00, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> > >>>The typescript uses file names, however ConTeXt can not load system > >>>fonts by filename. Hans, I think it would be nice to be able to load > >>>fonts by either font name or file name regardless of where they reside > >>>(I'm not sure how easy is that, though, with luaotfload and kpse setting > >>>OSFONTDIR is all what I need, since kpathsea appends it to its font > >>>searching paths). > >> > >>\starttext > >> > >>\definedfont[vera at 50pt] test > >>\definedfont[file:vera.ttf at 100pt] test > >> > >>\stoptext > >> > >>works quite ok on my machine and the log reports: > >> > >><c:/windows/fonts/vera.ttf> > >> > >>so it must be something in the typescripts .. maybe the old names? > > > >This works for me, but not with .otf fonts. > > \starttext > > \definedfont[file:STIXGeneral at 100pt] test > > \stoptext > > <c:/windows/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf>
I'm getting unpredictable results here, some fonts are found and some are not, but I can't identify a pattern, I thought it is related to symbolic links but could not prove it (replacing symlinks by a copy, and updating the databases but still the font is not found by file name). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
