[tex-live] XeTeX and ConTeXt

John Hughes jkhughes2 at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 10 19:19:05 CET 2009


I have just installed TeX Live 2008 on Windows and am having some
problems with XeTeX and ConTeXt. The first problem is that XeTeX
cannot access system fonts (using fontspec with xelatex). I have tried
running fc-cache -v -r, which generates the following output:

/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 5 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 48 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/home/username/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/username/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

It seems to be looking for Linux directories rather than Windows ones.
How can I tell it to look in the usual Windows directories?

My second problem is that ConTeXt's texexec doesn't do anything. The
program is installed, but when I try to run texexec there is a short
pause and then nothing happens. There are no error messages at all, it
just doesn't seem to do anything.

Any help on either issue would be greatly appreciated.

John


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