Indexing fonts
Norbert Preining
norbert at preining.info
Sun Jan 22 14:16:04 CET 2023
Hi Peter,
> at http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/fontuse.html so all
Some comments:
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The paragraph after the CM introduction/set in CM starts with
LATEX also comes with the *** There are some extra fonts
generously donated ..
This is not understandable to me.
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Concerning
$ kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMFSYSVAR'
I suggest the simpler
kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR
since no quoting is needed.
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Concerning the activation of all fonts from TL for fontconfig.
I know that we have the file TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf
but my personal experience is that activating all fonts via that file
can be rather dangerous. I had fontconfig crashing on me on some fonts
(not sure if this is still the case, though)
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Concerning Exercise 6.2
I would throw in
/usr/local/share/fonts
since quite some people install their fonts there
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Last comment:
> first-time user, who is possibly not a very savvy computer user.
I have the feeling that the level of detail is not really for "not very
savvy computer users and first-time LaTeX users".
There is a lot of stuff in there.
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Thanks for all your work on that, this is much appreciated!
Norbert
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