Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:59:28 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 Philipp Gesang philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Hi John! ···date: 2013-07-26, Friday···from: john Culleton··· I am tryihg to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts used with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user signon. I examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc files and deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I still have no gui fonts. Can you clarify what you mean by “wipe out”? Were the font files deleted? Are other kinds of fonts (e.g. bitmap/pfb) still working? If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that won't wipe out my gui fonts. OSFONTDIR is a tex specific (kpathsea and Context) variable that I don’t think is used by the system (fontconfig, desktop environment). While you were fiddling with font paths, is it possible that you accidentally modified something else, like ~/.config/fontconfig or /etc/fonts/* ? Best regards, Philipp When signed on as my usual username and I fire up the gui I get squares instead of characters. It works OK if I sign on as an alternate user or root. I'll try the sudo fc-cache -fv route and see what happens. ___ 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 _ My solution to the missing or miscalled gui fonts is to reestablish Slackware Linux 14 on a new partition and copy pertinent stuff over. Everything is OK so far. I used texlive 2013 since it is simpler to setup and use then stand alone context. My solution to the original problem was suggested in part by a reply on comp.text.tex newsgroup. Basically I gave up on trying to cajole context/luatex to use the fonts I have in /usr/share/fonts/OTF. Instead I copied the ones I need for this project into texmf-local/fonts. And I didn't use any subdirectory structure. Having been burned once I did not use OSFONTDIR at all. Instead I used these methods: context --generate mtxrun--script fonts --reload mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=Minion* and the same except for my sanserif choice Myriad Now I am in business. John Culleton ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:15:58 +0200 Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote: On 26/07/13 21:08, john Culleton wrote: I am trying to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts Hi John, sorry to read that. Using the ConTeXt Suite the command I use is: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts// But I append it at the end of tex/setuptex. I’m afraid I cannot help you with the system fonts, because I don’t use ConTeXt from TeXLive 2013. All I guess is removing all OSFONTDIR from your configuration. (Running grep -irl OSFONTDIR . on your home directory should do the searching job.) Sorry for not being more helpful. I hope it helps, Pablo Hmm. Why do you use // at the end of the statement? Does that have some kind of magic? John Culleton ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
On 27/07/13 16:34, john Culleton wrote: On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:15:58 +0200 Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote: [...] Using the ConTeXt Suite the command I use is: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts// Hmm. Why do you use // at the end of the statement? Does that have some kind of magic? I was told this makes ConTeXt to look for fonts in subdirectories. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___ 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 ___
[NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
I am tryihg to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts used with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user signon. I examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc files and deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I still have no gui fonts. If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that won't wipe out my gui fonts. I can of course move the pertinent fonts to the fonts directories in my /usr/local/texlive etc. file structure. But I am looking for a more general solution. Slackware 14 64 bit and texlive 2013 As always, thanks in advance to those who reply: John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
On 26/07/13 21:08, john Culleton wrote: I am trying to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts Hi John, sorry to read that. Using the ConTeXt Suite the command I use is: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts// But I append it at the end of tex/setuptex. I’m afraid I cannot help you with the system fonts, because I don’t use ConTeXt from TeXLive 2013. All I guess is removing all OSFONTDIR from your configuration. (Running grep -irl OSFONTDIR . on your home directory should do the searching job.) Sorry for not being more helpful. I hope it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
Do you perhaps needs to rebuild your font cache? From the terminal: sudo fc-cache -fv Best, Mica On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote: On 26/07/13 21:08, john Culleton wrote: I am trying to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts Hi John, sorry to read that. Using the ConTeXt Suite the command I use is: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts// But I append it at the end of tex/setuptex. I’m afraid I cannot help you with the system fonts, because I don’t use ConTeXt from TeXLive 2013. All I guess is removing all OSFONTDIR from your configuration. (Running grep -irl OSFONTDIR . on your home directory should do the searching job.) Sorry for not being more helpful. I hope it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
Hi John! ···date: 2013-07-26, Friday···from: john Culleton··· I am tryihg to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts used with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user signon. I examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc files and deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I still have no gui fonts. Can you clarify what you mean by “wipe out”? Were the font files deleted? Are other kinds of fonts (e.g. bitmap/pfb) still working? If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that won't wipe out my gui fonts. OSFONTDIR is a tex specific (kpathsea and Context) variable that I don’t think is used by the system (fontconfig, desktop environment). While you were fiddling with font paths, is it possible that you accidentally modified something else, like ~/.config/fontconfig or /etc/fonts/* ? Best regards, Philipp pgpdYAlCL7WqL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 Philipp Gesang philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Hi John! ···date: 2013-07-26, Friday···from: john Culleton··· I am tryihg to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts used with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user signon. I examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc files and deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I still have no gui fonts. Can you clarify what you mean by “wipe out”? Were the font files deleted? Are other kinds of fonts (e.g. bitmap/pfb) still working? If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that won't wipe out my gui fonts. OSFONTDIR is a tex specific (kpathsea and Context) variable that I don’t think is used by the system (fontconfig, desktop environment). While you were fiddling with font paths, is it possible that you accidentally modified something else, like ~/.config/fontconfig or /etc/fonts/* ? Best regards, Philipp When signed on as my usual username and I fire up the gui I get squares instead of characters. It works OK if I sign on as an alternate user or root. I'll try the sudo fc-cache -fv route and see what happens. ___ 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 ___
