[lltx] Can luatex auto-run mkluatexfontd

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Simon Spiegel <simon at simifilm.ch> wrote:

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> On 18.05.2010, at 17:55, lualatex-dev-request at tug.org wrote:
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> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:14:35PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
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> osx:
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> /System/Library/Fonts//;/Network/Library/Fonts//;/Library/Fonts//
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>      You probably also want $HOME/Library/Fonts// there.
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>
> I am not enthused about embedding system directories in our texmf.cnf,
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> which will inevitably change without warning with os releases, cause
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> weird problems/slowdowns for some users because their setups aren't the
>
> same as yours, etc.
>
>
> AFAIK, those are the only documented font directories by Apple and
> Microsoft and are unlikely to change or be different between OS versions
> etc. I also, naively, thought that since texmf.cnf is a configuration
> file it is more appropriate place to store such configuration items
> rather than hardcoding them into luaotfload, and in is easier to update
> a configuration file than releasing a new version of a package, or so I
> thought.
>
>
> I see one not so small potential problem here: There are various font
> managers for OSX which store their fonts in non standard locations (for
> example, I use FontExplorer X Pro). Still, these programs make their fonts
> available to all apps which use the standard system APIs. I'd claim that
> such managers might not be so rare among (La)TeX users since they often care
> about their fonts. But these managed fonts wouldn't be available to LuaLaTeX
> …
>
> simon
>
>
Right now, we cannot support such setups, users of these tools need to set
OSFONTDIR manually then, but we can at least try tosupport the more standard
locations.

Regards,
 Khaled


-- 
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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