From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to use a true type font?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:20:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C99F489.2080000@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimj_v8r_kQNWKwxaymE_8L9hax27qJpfykMV4XW@mail.gmail.com>
On 22-9-2010 2:11, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 2010/9/22 Procházka Lukáš wrote:
>>
>> And one more question - maybe due to that I'm not Linux user -
>>
>> - what does the "!!" at the begin and the "//" at the and of some paths
>> mean? Or is it something TeX-special?
>
> !! means that a database must be created first. The advantage is that
> searching is much faster, but the drawback is that you need to update
> the database each time when you modify something (add or remove
> files). Without !! it means that files are searched for on the fly.
> Advantage: database doesn't need to be updated, drawback: slower
> search.
>
> I'm not sure - maybe entries in texmf-local should be without !!.
no fun
only home has no !! (and one can even argue that as creating the
database is a one time shot while the constant delay of scanning can
take seconds in a worst case)
Hans
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-22 9:02 Procházka Lukáš
2010-09-22 9:09 ` luigi scarso
2010-09-22 10:06 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-09-22 10:16 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-09-22 10:23 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-22 11:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-09-22 12:04 ` Procházka Lukáš
2010-09-22 12:11 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-09-22 12:20 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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