On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 22:41, George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 06:35, Zdenek Wagner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Windows may need an action to make the fonts work. The manual contains >> chapter "Post-install actions". I am not a Windows user so that I >> cannot be more specific but this should be the first text to read. >> >> > Unfortunately, this text says little about Windows: > > In 3.4.4 System font configuration for XeTEX and LuaTEX we have: > > "On Windows, fonts shipped with TEX Live are automatically made available > to XeTEX by font > name." This wasn't true for me, but I install TL on linux with the > addition of win32 binaries and > mount the directory on Wiindows (currently using NFS). > > There are a couple generated fontconfig files in " > .../texlive/2019/fonts/conf". There is > "fonts.conf" with linux paths as well as "c:/windows/fonts" and " > texlive-fontconfig.conf" > for use with linux. "fc-cache" fails because it doesn't find the > configuration file. There > are two variables that should allow fontconfig tools to find the conf file: > > >kpsewhich -expand-var=$FONTCONFIG_FILE > fonts.conf > > >kpsewhich -expand-var=$FONTCONFIG_PATH > N:/texlive/2019/texmf-var/fonts/conf > > Since these don't seem to work, I created a "C:\Users\<user>\.fonts.conf" > from the > above "fonts.conf" with windows paths and set the "FONTCONFIG_FILE" > environment variable to the full path of the new file: > > >kpsewhich -expand-var=$FONTCONFIG_FILE > c:/Users/<user>/.fonts.conf > > With this change, "fc-cache" runs and I get both texlive and Windows > fonts in xelatex documents. > Looks like fontconfig on Windows has a problem with the texmf.cnf provided > settings., but perhaps > this stems from trying to have one install shared between linux and > windows. > I tried adjusting the FONTCONFIG_FILE and FONTCONFIG_PATH variables in $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf.cnf, but the changes aren't shown by kpsewhich, so it appears that it is necessary to set FONTCONFIG_FILE in the environment. > > >> Zdeněk Wagner >> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml >> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >> >> út 12. 3. 2019 v 5:19 odesílatel Taylor, P <[email protected]> napsal: >> > >> > No problems using TL 2018 under Windows 7, Apostolos, but never tried >> Windows 10 (nor have I any wish to). Can you forward detailed error >> message(s), please ? >> > Philip Taylor >> > -------- >> > Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > A friend of mine tried to use XeLaTeX >> > under Win10. He tried TeXLive 2018 and >> > MikTeX. The problem is that the system >> > cannot find the fonts that are installed in >> > the system folder c:/windows/fonts >> > Is this normal or is there a "hack" to solve >> > this problem? >> > I am using Solaris... so I cannot provide >> > much feedback... >> > >> > >> >> > > -- > George N. White III > > -- George N. White III
