I want to install a (ttf) font in a local, relative directory and use it with fontspec / texlive 2015. For example I download TheanoDidot-Regular.ttf
from http://www.fonts2u.com/theano-didot-regular.font and put it in the current directory where this test file is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{TheanoDidot}[
Extension = .ttf ,
UprightFont = *-Regular,
]
\begin{document}
Hello world
\end{document}
This works fine.
Now I put the file in a directory called myfonts
. I have no clue why LuaTeX/fontspec does not like my setting.
mkdir myfonts
mv TheanoDidot-Regular.ttf myfonts/
The following file gives an error:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{TheanoDidot}[
Path = myfonts/,
Extension = .ttf ,
UprightFont = *-Regular,
]
\begin{document}
Hello world
\end{document}
gives
....
live2015/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux))
306 words of node memory still in use:
3 hlist, 1 vlist, 1 rule, 2 glue, 1 kern, 4 attribute, 43 glue_spec, 4 attrib
ute_list, 1 write nodes
avail lists: 2:47,3:4,4:23,5:1,6:17,7:1,9:6
!LuaTeX error: cannot find OpenType font file for reading ()
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
What can I do to access the font?
$ luatex --version
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238)
Best Answer
You need to delete the lua/luc-file of the font from
...\texmf-var\luatex-cache\generic\fonts\otf
.It contains the old path to the font and so confuse luatex.
I'm not sure if it is worth if luaotfload adds a check for this case to recreate the cachefile but you could open an issue https://github.com/lualatex/luaotfload/issues.