Re: MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 10/25/2013 7:01 AM, Schmitz Thomas A. wrote:
>
> On 24 Oct 2013, at 16:44, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> You need to set it to a dummy directory! See: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/136073/323
>
> No, even that doesn’t help:
>
> echo $OSFONTDIR
> /tmp/dummy
>
> and then on a first run (after regnerating the format with this variable set), I get lines such as
>
> fonts           > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/Users/tas/Library/Fonts'
> fonts           > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/Library/Fonts'
> fonts           > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/System/Library/Fonts'
> fonts           > names > globbing path '/System/Library/Fonts/**.OTF'
> fonts           > names > 68 system files identified, 2 skipped, 2 duplicates, 66 hash entries added, runtime 43.223 seconds
>
> So something appears to be overriding the variable that I set. But what? And why? And how do I stop it?
>
> On 24 Oct 2013, at 23:40, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> I don't understand the speed issue. We're talking about relatively few fonts only and context will not scan them unless there is a change. After a remake a rescan takes < 9 sec on my laptop and < 6 sec once the directories have been cached (windows 8 / 64 bit / i7 / ssd).
>>
>> Only an initial full scan takes a while (deleted cache), but that's mostly because I have a pretty large font collection in my texmf-fonts tree.
>
> You’re right of course that it’s only the initial run when a new font cache has to be built, but the time I get on os x is much longer than what you report:
>
> with rescanning of system fonts:
> system          | total runtime: 114.131 (yes, that’s almost 2 minutes!)
>
> And I don’t want to twiddle my thumbs for two minutes, and don’t want to use those “system fonts” (or if I want to use them, I will copy them to my texmf directories)!

hm, i wonder why that takes so long as i get:

tex tree:

561 tree files identified,    5 skipped,  5 duplicates, 556 hash entries 
added, runtime 14.282 seconds
426 tree files identified,    7 skipped,  5 duplicates, 419 hash entries 
added, runtime 12.297 seconds
   8 tree files identified,    0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   8 hash 
entries added, runtime  0.188 seconds
   0 tree files identified,    0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   0 hash 
entries added, runtime  0.156 seconds
677 tree files identified,    1 skipped,  1 duplicates, 676 hash entries 
added, runtime  0.672 seconds

system:

   2 system files identified,  0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   2 hash 
entries added, runtime  0.047 seconds
437 system files identified, 57 skipped, 57 duplicates, 380 hash entries 
added, runtime 20.001 seconds
  20 system files identified,  1 skipped,  1 duplicates,  19 hash 
entries added, runtime  0.063 seconds
   0 system files identified,  0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   0 hash 
entries added, runtime  0.031 seconds
   0 system files identified,  0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   0 hash 
entries added, runtime  0.047 seconds

anyway, in a next beta you can set this in texmf.cnf.lua:

return {
     content = {
         directives = {
             ["fonts.usesystemfonts"] = false,
         },
     },
}

Best do that in texmf-local as a next update will overwrite the main cnf 
file. Entries in the he local file overload main ones.

Hans

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