On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:35:52PM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 08.03.2010 um 17:50 schrieb maxwell: > > >The DejaVu fonts all sit in a separate directory, which fc-list > >and XeTeX do find; but in a sister directory to the directory > >containing > >the .ttf files are a bunch of font config (*.config) files. That is: > > fonts/ > > dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.30/ > > ttf/ > > (*.ttf here) > > config/ > > (*.config here) > >Is it possible this is preventing FcInit (or fontconfig?) and > >XeTeX from > >finding the .config files? How could I tell? (this would not however > >explain why Word has the same problem) > > > Firstly, your test cases are wrong! The alltt environment changes > some behaviour significantly. The "minimal" class is better suited > for proving that a font file or such is faulty. > > Libfontconfig does not read any ".config" files. You can prove this > by running on the command line > > fc-list : file | grep config
fc-list lists font files only, not config files. Fontconfig reads /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (the patch depends on your installation) and any other files need to be included from it (recursively). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
