<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Simon Spiegel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@simifilm.ch">simon@simifilm.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><div>On 18.05.2010, at 17:55, <a href="mailto:lualatex-dev-request@tug.org" target="_blank">lualatex-dev-request@tug.org</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:14:35PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">osx:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">/System/Library/Fonts//;/Network/Library/Fonts//;/Library/Fonts//<br></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> You probably also want $HOME/Library/Fonts// there.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am not enthused about embedding system directories in our texmf.cnf,<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">which will inevitably change without warning with os releases, cause<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">weird problems/slowdowns for some users because their setups aren't the<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">same as yours, etc.<br></blockquote><br>AFAIK, those are the only documented font directories by Apple and<br>Microsoft and are unlikely to change or be different between OS versions<br>
etc. I also, naively, thought that since texmf.cnf is a configuration<br>file it is more appropriate place to store such configuration items<br>rather than hardcoding them into luaotfload, and in is easier to update<br>a configuration file than releasing a new version of a package, or so I<br>
thought.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I see one not so small potential problem here: There are various font managers for OSX which store their fonts in non standard locations (for example, I use FontExplorer X Pro). Still, these programs make their fonts available to all apps which use the standard system APIs. I'd claim that such managers might not be so rare among (La)TeX users since they often care about their fonts. But these managed fonts wouldn't be available to LuaLaTeX …</div>
<div><br></div><div>simon</div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br>
</span></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Right now, we cannot support such setups, users of these tools need to set OSFONTDIR manually then, but we can at least try tosupport the more standard locations.<br><br>Regards,<br>
Khaled<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> Khaled Hosny<br> Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team<br> Free font developer<br>
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