Choosing font depending on the OS (Win, Linux)

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How can I do the macro which will automatilcally choose font if compiles on Win (TNR font) or on Linux (Liberation for example). Using XeTex (TeXLive).

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[spelling=modern]{russian}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\setmainfont{Liberation Serif} %want to choose Liberation on Linux, TNR in Win
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfonttt[Script=Cyrillic, Scale=0.8]{Ubuntu-Light}

There seems to be a package ifplatform. I have not tried it but this is the first result I found on CTAN. — Artemis, Jan 16 '17 at 15:41
Maybe you can "simply" put one of the fonts as fall back if the other does not exist, see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/53448/36296 — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Jan 16 '17 at 15:55
@Artemis great! very powerful macro, thank you for the answer — Vasya Pravdin, Jan 16 '17 at 16:05
@samcarter thank you, sometimes the best way is simplest way . — Vasya Pravdin, Jan 16 '17 at 16:06

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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As already stated in a comment there is a package called ifplatform which can solve this problem. It should work also for LuaLaTeX and pdfLaTeX, not just XeTeX.

Attention: Keep the warning from the documentation in mind, that all macros except \ifwindows do not work as expected unless --shell-escape is enabled.

For your example the solution would be best written as:

\usepackage{ifplatform}
\ifwindows
% Load Windows font here
\else
% Load Non-Windows font here
\fi

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Jan 16 '17 at 16:13

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Thank you! Because of my limited experience, I would have understood this much longer. – Vasya Pravdin Jan 17 '17 at 07:07

Choosing font depending on the OS (Win, Linux)

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