Hi Alan, Phil,
Bingo! Adding these lines in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf did the trick. I now have a
PDF-file plplot-5.10.0.pdf with the documentation nicely organised.
The build process still is complaining about validity errors, but I assume that
it is mere hair splitting :).
Regards,
Arjen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:28 AM
> To: Arjen Markus; phil rosenberg
> Cc: plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Docbook on Cygwin
>
> On 2014-11-10 21:14-0000 phil rosenberg wrote:
>
> > Just to keep you updated on the Cygwin fonts, Someone on the Cygwin
> mailing list directed me to
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-07/msg00000.html. Look under the
> heading fontconfig - there is also a link where the devs explain why it
> happens.
> Basically when new fonts are placed in the tex folders the fontconfig cache
> must be
> updated by calling fc-cache and they were worried this wouldn't be done.
>
> @Phil: Thanks for passing on those interesting links. My interpretation of
> your thread
> (started at
> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00154.html) is that Ken Brown used
> your post to remind Yaakov once again to fix this issue that Ken had discussed
> previously in <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-07/msg00000.html>
> and
> <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-05/msg00018.html>. So it does appear
> the Cygwin devels were already aware of the issue, but hopefully your user
> report
> will provide motivation for Cygwin to fix this issue in a timely manner.
>
> @Phil and Arjen: Until Cygwin gets this issue fixed, I suggest you use their
> suggested workaround (referred to in <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-
> announce/2014-07/msg00000.html>.
>
> It appears that workaround is similar to what is stated now at
> doc/docbook/README.developers except that /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (part of the
> libfontconfig1-2.11.1-1 package) is edited instead of creating a new file
> /etc/fonts/local.conf, and instead of specifying
>
> <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts</dir>
>
> alone (which contains huge numbers of fonts that are not all compatible with
> fontconfig, it is recommended that the more specific
>
> <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
> <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
> <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</dir>
>
> directories are used instead which greatly limits the number and kind of TeX
> fonts
> that fontconfig has to deal with.
>
> Note, I don't think specifying the directories either in
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or
> /etc/fonts/local.conf should matter, but the latter is preferred since it
> doesn't mess up
> a file that is under package control. However, I now believe it is really
> essential to
> specify the 3 directories above rather than just the one.
>
> @Arjen: for the pure Cygwin case, I think if you move to the three-directory
> workaround, that might well be the solution to the BI.tfm font issue that you
> hit earlier
> today. That change will rightly exclude fontconfig being made aware of
> BI.tfm which
> does not reside in any of the above specific directories. After all *.tfm
> files are font
> metric files (see
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX_font_metric>) and not true font files so it
> is
> extremely unlikely that fontconfig is designed to work with them at all.
> Anyhow,
> please let us know if the three-directory workaround for these Cygwin font
> issues
> works for you.
>
> Alan
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