The problem with Standalone is that the full range of fonts found with
Texlive is not available. Standalone has 258 otf fonts and TexLive
has 508 otf fonts. So I am opting for TeXLive, although I have both.
I use standalone in parallel with texlive (which I need for latex). In the
Arch PKGBUILD that I maintain, I use:
# If texlive exists, use fonts from texlive
if [ -d $_texlivefontdir ]
then
mkdir -p $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts
if [ -L $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts ]
then
rm $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts
fi
ln -s $_texlivefontdir $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts
fi
So, if TL is installed, the TL font directory is symlinked at an
appropriate location and all the TL fonts are available with ConTeXt
standalone as well.
Another dfficulty is that many of the examples for simplefonts
are apparently developed on a Windows system and I use Linux. Font
names are different.
I haven't had any trouble with using simplefonts in Linux (but then, I
rarely consult the wiki for usage examples). Could you point to specific
examples.
Aditya
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