Does changing default UI fonts through settings.reader.lua works?

[boredhominid]

I added a fontmap portion to my settings.reader.lua but it doesn't work instead a default settings.reader.lua is created and loaded. Does this work? If so what am I missing?

["fontmap"] = {
        ["cfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["tfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["smalltfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["x_smalltfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["ffont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["smallffont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["largeffont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["rifont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["pgfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["scfont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["hpkfont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["hfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["infont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["smallinfont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["infofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["smallinfofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["smallinfofontbold"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["x_smallinfofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["xx_smallinfofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
    },

[Frenzie]

It's a bit unclear what you mean by "this". If you mean that's an excerpt, I'd have to try at home. If you mean that's all you put in there, it's incomplete and should look closer to:

return {
    ["fontmap"] = {
        ["cfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["tfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["smalltfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["x_smalltfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["ffont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["smallffont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["largeffont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["rifont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["pgfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["scfont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["hpkfont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["hfont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["infont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["smallinfont"] = "IBMPlexMono.ttf",
        ["infofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["smallinfofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["smallinfofontbold"] = "IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf",
        ["x_smallinfofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
        ["xx_smallinfofont"] = "IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf",
    },
}

[boredhominid]

sorry for the confusion, it is indeed an excerpt of the whole file and is indeed inside return{} with the rest of the settings.

[Frenzie]

Well, in that case what I posted works for me — or rather doesn't work for me because I don't have those fonts, but it crashes as expected, so to speak.

09/14/21-18:55:57 ERROR #! Font xx_smallinfofont ( IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf ) not supported: ./ffi/freetype.lua:179: Failed to load font './fonts/IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf', freetype error code: 1
09/14/21-18:55:57 ERROR #! Font smalltfont ( IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf ) not supported: ./ffi/freetype.lua:179: Failed to load font './fonts/IBMPlexSans-Bold.ttf', freetype error code: 1

[boredhominid]

Thank you very much. It seems that appending fontmap after all the other settings fails but putting it in the right alphabetical order (in my case between ["folder_shortcuts"] = {}, and ["footer"] = {},) works.

[Frenzie]

It doesn't need to be alphabetical. If you run `lua settings.reader.lua`or `luajit settings.reader.lua` it'll tell you roughly where you made a syntax error.