[lltx] mkluatexfontdb & Mac OS X

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sat May 15 12:11:29 CEST 2010


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:38:37AM +0200, Élie Roux wrote:
> Le 15 mai 2010 10:59, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> a écrit :
> >
> > Well, libfontconfig is probably present but not necessarily the fc-list
> > command-line tool. Also, XeTeX may use specific OS X features on OS X (not sure
> > about that).
> 
> After some research, it seems that XeTeX uses something called "Apple
> Type Services" on OSX... so this means we should have a special case
> for OSX. I think the best way is to fake an OSFONTDIR... unless there
> is a simple way to get the font directories another way? Will, do you
> know something about that? I think you're the only one able to play
> with OSX... Last time I checked, OSX refused to run in a virtual
> machine, but it was two years ago... did the situation change?

Latest VirtualBox is said to support OSX, didn't test it though.

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
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