Pablo Rodriguez <oi...@gmx.es> writes: > On 11/19/2015 09:15 PM, Carlos wrote: >> Pablo, simply put, the system fonts, with the module simplefonts, >> can't be found. >> >> Was OSFONTDIR exported? Yes. >> Was the path specified correctly? Yes. In my case was /usr/share/fonts > > Which is the output from "kpsewhich --var-value=OSFONTDIR"?
I no longer have the ubuntu installation Pablo. 'please/set/osfontdir/environment/ I can start all over again and install it, and remove all TeX Live remnants. Although the issue here: is with the ubuntu packaged version. Texlive from ctan has no problems whatsoever > > AfaIk, you should get /usr/share/fonts// (double slash to handle > subdirectories). Double slash? That's a new one. Although not surprising. Have you heard of the go language by Google? They had some issues with it at one point. > >> What command was used afterward? The mtxrun --script fonts --reload. > > You could try (after fixing path above when needed) "mtxrun --script > fonts --reload --force". Yes. I did the above. It made no difference. >> Did you try other commands? Yes. Most notably context --generate, context >> --make, luatools. > > I think these are unrelated tools (although I’m not an expert). I was back and forth comparing one system (x64) with the (i386), and all I was trying to do, was to zero out incompatibilities among the two. >> When was the first time the condition appeared? Some time last week, >> after reading complaints from other computer users, who think texlive as >> it's currently distributed, is disrespectful to users, e.g. most people >> would not need every other package out there. (Of course, the above is >> just not correct). But the other most readily option, is to install the >> packaged distribution for ubuntu. The latter is what I did. > > For ConTeXt, I think it is better you use the ConTeXt Suite (an > standalone ConTeXt distribution). > > As a matter of fact, I don’t have TeX Live (or LaTeX) installed. I only > use the ConTeXt Suite (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone). I've never had issues with texlive itself. Just with the packaged one for ubuntu. > I hope it helps (complain back, if it doesn’t :-)), I'll gladly remove texlive and reinstall the ubuntu version. Thankfully I don't have dialup now. > > Pablo Thank you Pablo. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
