[luatex] [tex-live] lltxplatform integration

[Hans Hagen]

On 6/6/2015 8:40 AM, Élie Roux wrote:
> Le 06/06/2015 03:09, Reinhard Kotucha a écrit :
>> On 2015-06-05 at 02:37:49 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> [...] I am not that interested in fonts that are installed in fuzzy
>>> locations.
>>
>> You are probably not allowed to use fonts shipped with 3rd-party
>> software.  I strongly recommend to read the license before using a
>> font which is not part of TeX Live already.  I fear that in most
>> cases such fonts are unusable for legal reasons anyway.
>
> We're talking about fonts that are considered "installed" under Windows,
> and hence are shown in the font list of all Windows applications (Word,
> etc.), not fonts shipped with 3rd party software. The example that
> started the discussion was somebody using "Maintype"[1] to manage his
> fonts[2].

in that case a copy in a tex tree is better (i don't put my text files 
in the places the os likes most either)

the advantage of keeping files in the tree is that (1) one can create 
backups easier and (2) move a tex tree to another machine without hassle

Hans

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