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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-09-26 00:01:09 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-09-26 00:01:09 +0000
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a bit more doc about fontconfig
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@@ -1068,11 +1068,15 @@ specify a particular \CTAN\ mirror from the list at
\subsubsection{Font configuration for \XeTeX}
\label{sec:font-conf-xetex}
-If you have installed the \filename{xetex} package on a Unix-compatible
-system, you need to configure your system if you want \XeTeX\ to be able
-to find the fonts shipped with \TL. To facilitate this, when the
-\pkgname{xetex} package is installed (either at initial installation or
-later), the necessary configuration file is created in
+On Windows, fonts shipped with \TL\ are made available to \XeTeX\
+automatically. But if you have installed the \filename{xetex} package
+on a Unix-compatible system, you need to configure your system to be
+able to find the fonts shipped with \TL\ via system name lookup, and not
+just filename lookup.
+
+To facilitate this, when the \pkgname{xetex} package is installed
+(either at initial installation or later), the necessary configuration
+file is created in
\filename{TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf}.
To set up the \TL{} fonts for system-wide use (assuming you have
@@ -1084,14 +1088,16 @@ suitable privileges), proceed as follows:
\end{enumerate*}
If you do not have sufficient privileges to carry out the steps above,
-you can instead do the following to make the \TL{} fonts available
-to you as an individual \XeTeX{} user:
+or if you simply want to make the \TL{} fonts available to one user,
+you can do the following:
\begin{enumerate*}
\item Copy the \filename{texlive-fontconfig.conf} file to
\filename{~/.fonts.conf}, where \filename{~} is your home directory.
\item Run \Ucom{fc-cache -fv}.
\end{enumerate*}
+You can run \code{fc-list} to see the names of the system fonts.
+
\subsubsection{\ConTeXt{} Mark IV}
\label{sec:context-mkiv}