[XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

[rhino64 at postmail.ch]

Thanks for repying me.

Yes I would prefer not to install GFS Didot in the font 
directory of Windows and thus not to use the font service 
for this font.

The reason behind that is that I want to build a portable
distribution to be runnable from an USB key.
This key should be usable on a machine where the user
has not the possibility to modify the system (disk C on Windows).

Specifying the font path to load the font is not very convenient,
since the path will change (at least the letter associated with
the USB key can be different on each machine). I don't know
how to specify relative paths on a portable way?

It seems that the "fontconfig" package is running on Windows.
I have seen that the binaries (fc-list, fc-cache etc) 
of fontconfig package are present.

One solution would be perhaps to modify the configuration
of "fontconfig" to use the fonts located in the texlive
directory (like I have done for the Unix system).

Is this solution possible under Windows ? How to implement it ?

best regards,

Alain

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 24.09.2011 um 21:20 schrieb rhino64 at postmail.ch:
> 
> >   \fontspec[%
> >        Extension=.otf,
> >        UprightFont = *,
> >        BoldFont=*Bold,
> >        ItalicFont=*Italic,
> >        BoldItalicFont=*BoldItalic]{GFSDidot}
> 
> With XeTeX you certainly don't need this block.
> 
> I could get your result only then when I remove GFS Didot from the font service, so I presume that you did not configure your font services to provide this font family.
> 
> XeTeX can load a font directly from the disk when you also describe the path to the font file. Otherwise it uses a font service. If some MS Windows (office) programme can use GFS Didot, then it's likely that it's in the font service and can be accessed by XeTeX and xdvipdfmx.
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