[lltx] lualatex and system fonts.

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sat, 15 Apr 2023 01:28:17 +0200 schrieb luigi scarso:

> Hi,  I apologize in advance if I misread the documentation,
> but it seems that in linux luaotfload-tool always runs fontconfig,
> mixing in this ways the fonts of the (currently active) texlive with the
> systems fonts.

> Coming form 20+ of context where the behaviour is "use only the fonts of
> the (currently active) context" and given that luaotfload inherits from
> context,  this behaviour  looks .. weird.

well large parts of the "non-context" code in luaotfload is about
finding and using system fonts ;-). That is what LaTeX users expect
to happen: They want to use their "normal" fonts with lualatex. (And
it is also what xelatex does).

> I am not able to see if there is any way for lualatex to completely avoid
> fontconfig (and the hardcoded directories in Windows and Mac) and use
> exclusively the fonts of texlive.

I don't think that there is an interface to suppress the fonts in
the system folder completly, you can only say that you prefer the
texmf fonts. If you really need that, make a feature request at the
luaotfload github.


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