Using fonts from the LaTeX Font Catalogue

Paulo Ney de Souza pauloney at gmail.com
Fri May 7 21:12:57 CEST 2021


Awesome thanks. The list is being filtered, shortened and will be reposted
soon.

PN

On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 12:01 PM David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 7 May 2021 at 16:39, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 11:54 PM David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Paulo ,some comments on your list
>>> .....
>>> Note that if you are searching for fonts by font name rather than
>>> filename with xelatex then you need to configure fontconfig
>>> to look in the texlive tree, specifically add something like
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
>>> <fontconfig>
>>>   <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
>>>   <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
>>> </fontconfig>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi David, indeed I went to a new installation and forgot about that piece:
>>
>> I used to do this in a different way -- executing the commands:
>>
>> sudo bash
>> cp $(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf
>> /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
>> fc-cache -fsv
>>
>>
>> and I have 3 quick questions:
>>
>> Are there real differences between the end up results of your way and
>> this way?
>>
>
> It's the same except I saved the search with kpsewhich and showed the
> file  directly.
> you can save it in conf.d or in local.conf it makes no difference in this
> context. fontconfig
> looks in lots of places for its settings at system or individual user
> level and as long as it's set somewhere...
> I actually deleted one of the three directories in the texlive sample (for
> type 1 fonts) which I think is a slight
> improvement (I posted to texlive list about that a few weeks ago but it
> makes no difference in most cases)
>
>
>
>> What is exactly the file to be modified, in the way you suggest?
>>
>> Is this in TL instructions?
>>
>
> I was just suggesting that you follow the texlive instructions. I just
> showed the file to be saved , you showed how you could
> find the installed template file to copy, but it makes no difference.
>
>
>>
>>
>>> > Some of them are reported AS part of TeXLive and some as NOT part of
>>> TeXLive.
>>>
>>> It would be helpful to filter out all the cases that are documented as
>>> not being in texlive, as in that case clearly the files not being in
>>> texlive is not an error.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That was going to be my next step on the list.
>>
>
> But the list without being filtered in that way is not really any use. It
> is just a list saying files that are not supposed to be in texlive, are not
> in texlive.
>
>
>> Paulo Ney
>>
>
> David
>
>
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