[tex-live] inclusion of libraries

[Ralf Stubner]

Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> writes:

> Additional ways to locate "uninstalled" fonts (those unknown to the  
> GUI environment) are under consideration, however, as there are a  
> variety of situations where this could be useful.

Particularly for TeX Live it would be useful if one could say something
like \font\x="lmroman10-regular.otf" and XeTeX would then use kpathsea
to search for the font by its file name. I don't know if the other
situations you are refering to could be catered for with this approach,
too.

cheerio
ralf