[lltx] luaotfload-database.lua

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Tue, 28 May 2013 19:17:21 +0200 schrieb Philipp Gesang:

>> But I was more thinking about a way to handle the configuration more
>> centralized. I have e.g. currently miktex, TL12 and TL13. All three
>> tex-systems have access to the same local texmf-tree where I have
>> stored some local fonts, blacklists for luaotfload etc. I think it
>> would be useful to have there some configuration file, where I could
>> put instructions like "if libertine is in the texmf-tree then use
>> it".  
 
> This would be a simple matter of drawing up some DSL for
> configuration. Then we keep extending it with every feature
> request and in a couple years from now we’d end up with some
> informally specified bug-ridden implementation of SQL.

;-). Actually I was thinking about a simple way to blacklist a
folder or a font. And when I worded it in this way I realized that
perhaps the blacklist configuration file could be used. Can one use
kpse-Variables and "Wildcards" in the blacklist configuration file? 

> Also, if we got rid of the ban on “write18”, we could use
> fontconfig instead of the database. 

But on the other side would fontconfig give back a much information
as does the current database (which I find quite useful)? 

> It allows you to write rules
> for matching fonts against different criteria. (E.g. I have a
> personal substitution set that eliminates the ms core fonts from
> about every graphical application except when they are embedded
> in pdfs.) 

> [1] I’m aware that fontconfig probably won’t be available on
>     Windows. But there should be some equivalent functionality
>     that other programs use when they “access system fonts”.

As I wrote somewhere in the beginning I'm using fontconfig to avoid
clashed when using xelatex. On windows fontconfig comes with the
TeX-System. But miktex and texlive differ in the locations and the
naming for local configuration files:

miktex uses  fontconfig/config/localfonts2.conf,
texlive as far as I can see fonts/conf/local.conf


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Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/