From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:04:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AE362B.3010506@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900903032124u3f6df674lc36e82bb81be2795@mail.gmail.com>
Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I use XeTeX, font searching through texmf- tree is very slow.
> search font through fontconfig is very fast.
> plain TeX or LaTeX does not have that problem.
> why is that? anyway to improve it?
afaik xetex perfers to look in the database first and then on the file
system
context on the other hand prefers to look for a file first
if you don't know what "whatever" stands for, prefixing with file: or
name: might help, as in file:whatever
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-04 5:24 Yue Wang
2009-03-04 8:04 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-03-09 2:14 ` Yue Wang
2009-03-09 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-24 11:33 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-24 20:27 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-24 20:57 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-24 21:17 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 1:44 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 9:39 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 11:18 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 11:49 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 12:43 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 13:33 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 13:41 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 14:07 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 14:09 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 14:13 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 14:13 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 16:18 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 14:15 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 14:31 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 16:19 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 18:06 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 18:17 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 16:18 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 16:17 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 14:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 16:15 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 14:41 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 16:21 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-25 12:14 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-04-25 13:27 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-24 20:29 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-04-25 1:08 ` Yue Wang
2009-04-25 11:45 ` Mojca Miklavec
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