[XeTeX] Strange problem with Devanagari in GNU FreeFont

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi all,

I have just encountered the very same problem on the computer with
Fedora 17 where Devanagari in FreeFont used to work without problems.
The same method solved the problem. It seems that fontconfig sometimes
obeys the order of directories specified in the config files,
sometimes disobeys it. the moral of it is never allow fontconfig to
find two copies of the same font. Strange things will happen.

2013/8/2 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> 2013/7/31 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Is it possible to find which
>>> exact font file was used by XeTeX and which one by xdvipdfmx?
>>
>>
>> I think, in the recent XeTeX, used font files are written with full paths
>> in foo.xdv by xe(la)tex --no-pdf foo.
>>
> Thank you very much for this note. Although I have not found any
> disassembler for xdv, I was able to use hexedit and the path could be
> found very quickly. Now there is a big mystery. I have two instances
> of the GNU FreeFont in both my computers and the same version of TL
> 2013. Both computers are x86_64. One instance is the latest inofficial
> snapshot, another instance is the one distributed in TL. My fontconfig
> is configured to look to my directories first. In Fedora 17 it does so
> and the latest snapshot is used while in Fedora 18 "fc-match -v
> FreeSans" finds the latest snapshot but XeTeX finds the instance
> distributed with TL. I have uninstalled forcibly the TL version so
> that now using the latest snapshot Devanagari works.
>
>> Best,
>> Akira
>>
>>
>>
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