On 11/8/2014 5:20 PM, phil rosenberg wrote:
Hi
I have discovered what I think is a tex/latex font problem. I am a developer
for Plplot and we use docbook for building our documentation. I have been
trying to get this to build correctly on Cygwin. The documentation uses the
FreeFont fonts and these seem to be installed by the
texlive-collection-fontsextra package. However, the documentation still would
not build. After some more checking and looking into how fonts work on Linux
and Cygwin I found that I needed to make the fonts available to fontconfig by
adding the directory /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/ to a /etc/fonts/local.config
file (along with the xml header copied from /etc/fonts/fonts.config).
Basically my question is, should the fonts in this folder be made available to
fontconfig during install? There are a number of ways to do this it seems -
probably adding a config file somewhere and then adding a symlink to it in
/etc/fonts/conf.d seems most sensible. Alternatively are these fonts not made
available to fontconfig by design?
This is discussed in the texlive release announcement
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-07/msg00000.html
under the heading "Fontconfig". See also
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-05/msg00020.html
Yaakov, could we get a fontconfig update that fixes this?
Thanks.
Ken
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