as advised I have installed standalone context in order to get better
support of system fonts under macosx.
I now have had the following happen to me:
1.
after installation of `standalone' and straightening out unrelated
problems with `\usemodule' usage I managed to get proper
support of -- that's the specific font I wanted to use -- the `Optima'
font family. Notably I got italics
where I wanted them. so far so good.
2.
then I discovered that standalone context does not include the very nice
`EB Garamond' font (although
there are some files in the context tree apparently related to tweaking
some things related to this font) -- contrary to
texlive where `context` finds this font just fine.
3.
instead of putting this font into the standalone `context' tree (which I
tried initially without luck -- on second thought
I probably would have needed to do a `mtxrun --script fonts --reload' ...)
I installed these (otf) fonts systemwide.
(as an aside: is there a way of notifying standalone context of the
location of the `texlive' font directories?)
4.
contrary to what I seem to have read in the documentation somewhere (??)
the fonts were than _not_ looked up "on demand" (i.e.
where not found automatically when compiling the document wanting to use
this font) but only found after I did a manual `mtxrun --script fonts
--reload'
5.
now `ebgaramond' works fine _but_ out of the `Optima' fonts now only the
regular font is found and reported by `mtxrun ... fonts`
if I interpret this output correctly:
optima optimaregular /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index:
4
optimanormal optimaregular /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index:
4
optimaregular optimaregular /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index:
4
so I seem back to square one in this respect :-(.
I can only assume that this has been caused by the `--reload' run (see
item 1. above: intitially `optima' italics worked) and/or maybe still
fragile support of these `ttc' (true type collection) files? just a guess.
what am I doing wrong _this_ time?
thx,
joerg
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