The documentation of luaotfload states that on Linux fontconfig is used to find the font locations. However all fonts I install in /usr/share/local/fonts/usr/local/share/fonts(as I don't want to mess up my package management) are not visible to luaotfload, but to all other applications in my system which also use fontconfig. How do I tell luaotfload where to look for fonts?
I’m using TeXLive 2012 included in Ubuntu.
This requires a bit of debugging... Do you have a /etc/fonts/fonts.conf that references these fonts? It might be quite important as the code of luaotfload relies on this file. If it doesn't work on your system, it might be because of an update in fontconfig files which makes luaotfload code needing an update... If you want, I would be ready to debug it if you provide me a teamviewer or ssh access...
EDIT: this is indeed in relashionship with the debian bug. Actually it's more a bug in luaotfload than in debian or texlive. I'll fix it in the next version, on CTAN today or tomorrow.
cat /etc/fonts/fonts.conf | grep /usr/local/ <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> So it is there in the fontconfig files. Other applications are able to use the fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts/
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Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39
The environment variable OSFONTDIR will override fontconfig information. Specifying directories with a double trailing slash means "please recurse into subdirectories". For example:
OSFONTDIR=${HOME}/.fonts:/usr/share/fonts//:/usr/share/texmf/fonts//
EDIT: There seems to be an issue with Debian (and thus Ubuntu) texlive packaging, which provides a default value of /usr/share/font for OSFONTDIR, meaning that fontconfig support is never invoked.
put it into /usr/local/share/fonts/ or alternatively into your home directory into .fonts/.
Run mkluatexfontdb -v | grep "local/share" to see what's going on.
usr/local/share/fonts mkluatexfontdb -v | grep "local/share" outputs nothing, because luaotfload isn’t looking in the local font directory. However, it looks like it has something to do with ubuntu’s packaging. On my desktop, where I installed vanilla TeXLive, the fonts in local font dir are getting loaded.
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Apr 24, 2013 at 20:46
/usr/share/local, while they should be in /usr/local/share. Please read man hier
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Apr 26, 2013 at 20:08
/usr/local/share/ In fact, that’s also the path kde puts them when I choose to install them globally. I didn’t want to offend anyone.
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Apr 26, 2013 at 22:39
The issue appears that fontconfig seems to automatically look in /usr/local/share/fonts without this being explicitly specified in the configuration. However luaotfload doesn't use fontconfig but loads the config directly. As such it will not look in this implicit location.
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf on my system with a big banner above saying 'DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.'