Sounds good to me Alan, I'll make the change later today. There is a specific
warning not to edit fonts.conf in that file as it will be overwritten on
upgrade.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
Sent: 10/11/2014 23:28
To: "Arjen Markus" <arjen.mar...@deltares.nl>; "phil rosenberg"
<philip_rosenb...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" <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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