Re: problem with xetex access to system fonts

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:54:40 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:51:02PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> If the fonts are placed anywhere outside those directories/files, you
>> have to make manual adjustments so the system can find and use them,
>> neither aptitude nor apt nor other package manager tool can do that for
>> you ;-)
> 
> No but the package scripts can/should do that, which are of course
> executed by the "package manager"
> 
> apt-cache show lmodern
> Package: lmodern
> Version: 2.004.1-3.1
> Installed-Size: 42623
> Maintainer: Debian TeX maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
> 
> (...)
> 
>  The fonts are setup for use with the TeX typesetting system. They are
>  also registered with defoma, which makes them available to other
>  applications such as Ghostscript and Fontconfig. Finally, they are made
>  available to the core X11 fonts system, which makes it possible to use
>  them in any X application.

I didn't know there was a package for the fonts.

Of course, if there is a package which is crafted specifically for latex 
then yes, it should configure automatically the font path accordingly. 
Otherwise is something worth to report.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón