[XeTeX] on fontspec 2.0

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Mar 28 15:55:16 CEST 2010


On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:05:41PM +0100, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> 
> 
> Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
> 
> >The systems font path (section 4.1) is generally
> >c:\Windows\fonts.
> 
> It would not be safe to assume that; I frequently install
> Windows into (e.g.) K:\WINXPPRO, as a result of which fonts
> would be under K:\WINXPPRO\fonts.

IIRC, Windows, at least XP, have an environment variable setting system
dir, so a proper implementation should check it and not hard code any
value, but as I stated before, right now we don't locate the files
ourselves, but this is likely to change later (the issue is more
complicated under *nix systems as one needs to parse fontconfig
configuration files).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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