On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:41:50 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am 09.06.2013 um 14:24 schrieb john Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com>: > > > I solved the wierd messages by a brute force method. I created a > > fresh slackware partition and whatever I did wrong was eliminated. > > Now, down to the fonts; the directory /usr/share/fonts and its > > subdirectories is a standard place to put fonts on a Linux system. > > Most of my other programs (Inkscape, Scribus) find those fonts > > without difficulty. I checked my permissions in that directory and > > subdirectories and they are not restrictive. I will link those > > fonts to a directory that Context searches. I just wonder why it > > worked before and not now. > > You have set the directories with the OSFONTDIR variable: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX#Building_the_font_database > > Wolfgang > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ That worked! still don't know why I lost access to those fonts but no matter. And after some mtxrun executions the weird messages went away too. So I can revert to my original partition which saves a lot of labor. Most sincere thanks to all who answered. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
