Venkatesan. S.K. (TNQ) wrote:
It is more a *fontspec* question and may be it has wider scope... Is it possible to load fonts from http URLs? i.e., can I do this: \fontspec{http://www.ctan.org/public/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf}.
I think it is more of a [Xe]TeX-engine question, to be honest, and one that has never really been satisfactorily resolved. Because just as you might want to write : > \fontspec {http://www.ctan.org/public/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf}. you might also want to write \usepackage {http://example.org/LaTeX/Classes/keyval.cls} Indeed, anywhere in [La][Xe]TeX [1] that you want to open a file for reading (be it font file, source file, data file or whatever), it would be nice if that file could be on a remote server and fetched using http. Unfortunately I am not aware of any implementation of [Xe]TeX that supports this; probably the most likely candidate would be LuaTeX (Taco cc'd) but I do not think that even LuaTeX yet supports this concept. Philip Taylor -------- [1] Or indeed, anywhere at all within your PC/Macintosh/Unix box/whatever. The problem is not unique to TeX, and it is not at all clear to me why filing systems have not yet evolved to allow remote http-served files to be read-accessed using the same interface as local files. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex