[XeTeX] Loading fonts from a common server or http URL

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi Phil,

On 06/22/11 09:35, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
>> you might also want to write
>>
>>      \usepackage {http://example.org/LaTeX/Classes/keyval.cls}

In ConTeXt MkIV under luatex, you can do

  \input {http://example.org/LaTeX/Classes/keyval.cls}

and likewise for images. It does not work for fonts, though.

It *could* be made to work with some extra lua code, but searching
for fonts is quite complicated already.

Best wishes,
Taco