[OS X TeX] Snow Leopard problem with font cache

[Yvon Thoraval]

no change at all :-(


2013/2/1 Yvon Thoraval <yvon.thoraval at gmail.com>

> fine, thanks, it's what i thought too, because i don't have even the
> folder "/etc/fonts/conf.d on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
> I'll remove it and restart computer, in case of...
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> 2013/2/1 Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu>
>
>> Yvon,
>>
>> Others will, I hope, answer more definitively.
>>
>> It looks to me like to did extra font configuration which might be
>> necessary
>> on other platforms but isn't necessary on the Mac. On the Mac, XeTeX will
>> find your Mac fonts automatically because it uses Apple's ATSUI font
>> framework.
>> Thus all the sudo stuff should be irrelevant, and perhaps dangerous.
>>
>> Can you easily unto that to test. If so, please try it.
>>
>> What you have done looks like trying to add Mac fonts to the TeX font
>> system
>> for programs unlike XeTeX. I know that some Mac folks have tried this,
>> and maybe made it work, but it usually isn't either necessary or advisable
>> since XeTeX can access those fonts directly.
>>
>> Now I hope that Herb Schulz and/or Bruno Voisin answer with much more
>> definitive information.
>>
>> Dick Koch
>>
>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Yvon Thoraval <yvon.thoraval at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday i did install MacTeX.pkg over Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
>> Did i decided to test the installation with xetex and opentype using
>> "opentype-info.tex" making use of :
>>
>> % Select the font name:
>> \def\myfontname{Latin Modern Roman}
>> %
>> %%% OpenType-info.tex %%%
>>
>> \font\testfont="\myfontname/ICU" at 12pt
>>
>> I did that after having done the following :
>> $ sudo mkdir -p /etc/fonts/conf.d
>> $ sudo cp
>> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-var/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf
>> /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
>> $ sudo fc-cache -fsv
>> which found hundrets of fonts in :
>> /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>> /System/Library/Fonts
>> /Library/Fonts
>> and ending with:
>> /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
>> fc-cache: succeeded
>>
>>
>> after that I've tested "opentype-info.tex" using :
>> $ xetex opentype-info.tex
>> giving badly :
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012)
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> (./opentype-info.texkpathsea: Invalid fontname `Latin Modern Roman/ICU',
>> contains ' '
>>
>> ! Font \testfont="Latin Modern Roman/ICU" at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric
>> (TFM)
>> file or installed font not found.
>> l.26 \font\testfont="\myfontname/ICU" at 12pt
>>
>> ?
>>
>> some one on french forum gave me an advice to verify mu setup :
>> $ fc-list -v | grep -i latin
>> giving no output at all.
>>
>> what did I mess ??
>> i've already installed MacTeX.pkg but rather on another computer under
>> Mountain Lion where it is working correctly.
>>
>> --
>> Yvon at 48.871651804,2.384858688
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