[XeTeX] Autoactivation

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 17 sept. 05 à 16:16, Simon Spiegel a écrit :

> I tried the terrific (and free) Linotype FontExplorer <http:// 
> www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27903> this week and a  
> question came up: FontExplorer offers autoactivation for most  
> standard apps. Although I don't know the details, it seems like it  
> catches some standard call for fonts and activates them on demand.  
> This works for apps like TextEdit etc. but not when compiling  
> something with Xe(La)TeX. Would it be possible to add this  
> functionality?Although I don't regard it as vital it would be a  
> nice feature.

I did try it too this week, but soon uninstalled it, for several  
reasons:

- I couldn't see which additional bonus FontExplorer offers over Font  
Book, other than a different interface.

- FontExplorer seems exactly the kind of app from which I tend to  
stay as far away as possible: an app that modifies the system  
behaviour, by offering to displace some fonts from /System/Library/ 
Fonts and /Library/Fonts to another location, by intercepting system  
calls, etc.; an app that creates a folder at the root level of the  
home directory, alongside ~/Documents, ~/Library, etc., instead of  
putting it inside ~/Library/Application Support as should be.

Bruno Voisin