Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:26, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 18-4-2012 10:44, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>> Imagine a project which ships both tex sources and fonts together in
>>> some SVN repository. It works perfectly fine if fonts are in the same
>>> folder as TeX documents, but if one wants some structure and put fonts
>>> in another folder, one has to install the font. There should be no
>>> need for users to install exotic fonts if document author can specify
>>> something like \setupfonts[directory=../fonts] on top of project file.
>>
>> maybe some day ... as caching is somewhat special then (lookups by names as
>> well) it's non trivial ... technically one can mount an additional pseudo
>> tree already but even then it might conflict when working on shares that are
>> used by multiple users (fonts defined with file: are less problematic, but
>> name: lookups get messy)
>
> For me it doesn't sound like a problem or a serious limitation if some
> project simply declares in which directory ConTeXt has to look for
> fonts and specifies the font with filename.

Yes I think this would be very useful too.

-- 

John Devereux
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