[luatex] Reading registry to find Windows fonts

[Philipp Stephani]

Here's an old discussion:
http://tex-live.tug.narkive.com/UQJpHihV/lualatex-platform-extension-module-in-tex-live

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 at gmail.com> schrieb am So., 21. Juni 2015 um
21:31 Uhr:

> Élie Roux <elie.roux at telecom-bretagne.eu> schrieb am Di., 2. Juni 2015 um
> 11:17 Uhr:
>
>> Le 02/06/2015 11:09, Akira Kakuto a écrit :
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >>> A few years ago I implemented a library to retrieve the list of fonts
>> on
>> >>> Windows, OS X, and Linux: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lualatex-platform
>> >>> I don't think it's widely used, but when I wrote it it worked reliably
>> >>> an all three OSes (http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=555), and
>> could
>> >>> be used as a starting point.
>> >
>> >> Thanks a lot for the pointer!
>> >
>> > I have uploaded a compiled package for TeX Live 2015-W32:
>>
>> Thanks a lot! I'll send a mail to MikTeX for this too. It might also be
>> useful for Linux and OSX, is it already compiled for these platforms? If
>> not, who should I report it to?
>>
>>
> IIRC I added it to tlcontrib some time ago, but didn't follow up because
> on Linux the current system (which already uses fontconfig) should be good
> enough, and on OS X the library couldn't be used because of the
> aforementioned bug.
>
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