[tex-live] OSFONTDIR in texmf.cnf-4WIN

[Hans Hagen]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     TTFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/truetype//;c:/windows/fonts//;$OSFONTDIR//
>
> If you do this, I strongly suggest making a variable (WINFONTS or
> something), instead of hardwiring the path in the (several) assignments.
>
> Anyway, the idea sounds fine to me.  I agree with your reasoning, FWIW.
>   
hardwiring can take place at the os level; it's an environment variable and i dislike the idea of having WINFONTS LINUXFONTS ANYPLATFORMFONTS and thereby platform dependent cnf files; the whole idea behind OSFONTDIR was that it was a kind of independent name 

Hans 

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