[luatex] luaotfload no longer finding fonts in TEXMF

[Evan Cooch]

On 7/2/2013 9:31 AM, Evan Cooch wrote:
> Pre-recent updates to MikTeX 2.9, in order to allow luaotfload to 
> 'find' fonts installed in TEXMF (say, XITS), especially (only?) if you 
> installed for 'all users', you had to tweak lualibs-dir.lua, adding
>
> P("(")  / "%%(" +
> P(")")  / "%%)" +
>
> around line around line 95, just before "P(1)". This worked perfectly.
>
> After the updates, you (in theory) needed to tweak 2 files (around 
> line 150 in the updated files)
>
> lualibs-dir.lua (in tex\luatex\lualibs)
>
> luaotflod-lib-dir.lua (in tex\luatex\luaotfload)
>
>
> However, despite making these changes, luaotfload-tool doesn't seem to 
> find the finds. If I run
>
> luaotfload-tool --update --force --vvv
>
> and watch things chug along, I can see it entering into (say the XITS 
> subdirectory), but not finding any fonts, even though the fonts are 
> actually there.
>
>
> So, something isn't working. The fact that we need to hack things to 
> get luaotfload to find the fonts in the first place seems problematic 
> -- not sure why it isn't the default to escape ( and ) to let it find 
> the fonts (although apparently that hack no longer works).
>
> Suggestions? I can brute-force a solution by moving fonts from TEXMF 
> to OS fonts directory (whereupon luaotfload-tool finds them just 
> fine), but...I shouldn't have to.
>
>

So, I did another re-install, re-hacked the files (as noted above), but 
this time, ran luaotfload-tool --update --force twice: once as admin, 
and once as user. Seems to have cured the problem. The first time I 
tried it, I ran luaotfload-tool as user only. Apparently, I either need 
to run it as admin, or need to run it as both user and admin.

Either way, seems to work. My original query about 'why we need to do 
this in the first instance' stands.