General ⇒ Refer to file in package directory

[hugovdberg]

I want to create a custom package to handle all my default font settings, and I have a number of otf files I want to include in my output using fontspec. What I don't want to do is copy these files to every project folder I create, and I want a solution that works both under Windows and Ubuntu Linux. To have identical files in both environments I use Dropbox and have a subfolder included as tex directory, so my packages are found just fine. Unfortunately I am not allowed to include the necessary OTF due to licensing, but a (random google result) OTF font can be downloaded from http://www.mediafont.com/font-10360-yan ... esatz.html

Does anyone know how to get the currentdirectory of the package file, I tried currfile and \currfiledir but that doesn't seem to work.

main.tex:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{myfonts}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\end{document}

with myfonts.sty in a different directory than main.tex, and otf files in same directory as myfonts.sty:

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\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/06/01]
\ProvidesPackage{myfonts}[2014/02/05 My custom fonts]

\RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
\RequirePackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Numbers={OldStyle,Proportional}]{calluna-regular.otf}

\endinput

[cgnieder]

Your file loads both fontspec and fontenc which is wrong. You need either the first (with pdfLaTeX) or the second with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

fontspec is able to use system fonts so the easiest seams to me to install the fonts on your system and then just to use it in the document with fontspec.

Regards

[hugovdberg]

Ok, I'll remove the fontenc package, but is there no way for LaTeX to know from what directory a package was loaded? I find myself working on different systems and/or reinstalling the OS quite regularly, so I am really happy with Dropbox as my custom package repo. I have tried to google for a solution but as soon as you google for anything with latex and directory you only get results for installation of packages

[cgnieder]

but is there no way for LaTeX to know from what directory a package was loaded?

It depends a bit on the distribution. I have little to no knowledge about MiKTeX. In TeX Live packages usually are placed in the local texmf tree and then the database is updated with mktexlsr. Here you'll find more information: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1137/5049

Regards

[hugovdberg]

While on the subject of fonts and fontenc vs fontspec, is the distinction pure based on whether you use pdflatex or lualatex (fontenc with the first and fontspec with the latter), or just that you don't need fontenc when you also use fontspec (and thus lualatex) and is fontenc+lualatex just fine as well?

I'm still figuring out how I want to setup my fonts, but I think I'm going to give in since this problem seems to be a bit harder than I thought it would be. I guess it takes more effort to set it up once this way than to do a manual install of the fonts on every system when necessary. I can still use Dropbox to have the otf-files available with the package

[Johannes_B]

You can use fontspec with either LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX, it loads fontenc implicitly, but with different options, depending on the engine you are using.