Using fonts from the LaTeX Font Catalogue

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Awesome thanks! Understood now.

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On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 12:10 PM David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, 7 May 2021 at 19:56, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 3:15 AM Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:
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>>> Am Fri, 7 May 2021 21:37:10 +1200 schrieb Rolf Turner:
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>>>
>>> > There are too many possibilities, too many things to adjust, and never
>>> > any *real* guidance as to where to begin.
>>>
>>> The configuration is described in the quite complete documentation
>>> of texlive
>>>
>>> https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
>>>
>>> But as David wrote, you only need this if you want to use xelatex
>>> and call fonts in the texmf tree by font name. For lualatex and
>>> pdflatex it is not relevant.
>>>
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>> Ulrike,
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>> What David is recommending is NOT a part of TeXLive documentation.
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> You misunderstood what I wrote which is exactly as texlive suggests/
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>> What is recommended there, buried in Section 3.4.4 of 41 pages of
>> documentation is:
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>>    1. Copy the texlive-fontconfig.conf file to
>>    /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf.
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> I just showed the file rather than say where to copy if from
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>>    1. Run fc-cache -fsv.
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>> .. but even then several question remain:
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>> 1. Is this a "mis-configuration" of my installation?
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> Because by default it is documented that you can not use internal  font
> names for files in the texlive tree with xetex unless you configure
> fontconfig tolook in texlive.
> That is optional but if you are going to post a long list of errors for
> fonts not found in texlive when called by name, you should configure your
> system so that is supposed to work before doing the tests.
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>> 2. Why is this standard behaviour on Windows and not on Linux?
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> windows doesn't use fontconfig so the windows-texlive specific fontconfig
> that is distributed with windows can be set up to be optimal for xetex.
> fontconfig is the system wide font system on linux and by default
> installing texlive does not change the system settings in that way but
> leaves it as an option.
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>> 3. If David's trick works -- I have not been able to make it work yet and
>> I am waiting on more clarity from him --
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> see above, that was a misunderstanding, I was just saying the same as the
> tl document suggests.
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> this is a completely internal job on part of TL, so why is it done on
>> Windows and not on Linux?
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> see above.  On linux changing the fontconfig setting changes the fonts
> available to all applications on the system.
> It is not, on linux, internal to texlive at all, it is configuring the
> system font  system.
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>> Paulo Ney
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> David
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