embed fonts or use system fonts

[gabrielalexandrelopes]

This is very cool, thank you!

Is there a way to either embed the fonts or to use the system fonts?

[tfachmann]

Sorry for the late reply.
This repo was more of a proof of concept and guide how one could use typst as a library.

As far as I can tell, system fonts are something the typst devs always tried to avoid.
Why? Because their main target is WebAssembly, abstracting everything related to the system.

I haven't really used this boilerplate myself as it was more of a case-study, but I'm to contributions or whatsoever

[flxzt]

In the latest version the typst-cli does use fontdb to search for system fonts (see here ). typst-as-library could adapt and do something similar I think

[Cubik65536]

You can use std::include_bytes to embed fonts like this (it's my own modification to the code of this repo).

I am also trying to find a way to be able to add other font externally (from whatever program that is calling the library) so other fonts (system one, or what user adds to the "project") can also be added and used.

[tfachmann]

Thanks for the resource! I would love to get a working proof of concept to compile it to web assembly, where ureq must be replaced by reqwasm or any other wasm-friendly fetching library (#6).
Once this is sorted + fonts are properly handled for both system and web, this reference repository is pretty much complete.