From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Finding OSX fonts
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:33:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CD688EE6-82B6-4FC1-BB6F-D2EECA8FCD80@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B6ADF0C-298B-4C98-92FA-1F71955F7104@uva.nl>
Am 2017-04-14 um 20:58 schrieb Meer, Hans van der <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>:
>> Did you refresh the database?
>> i.e.
>> mtxrun --script font --reload
>> additionally try --force
>>
>
> The reload was necessary, indeed.
> Do I then correctly understand that the mtxrun --list call is searching the ConTeXt internal fontbase and not the macOS system directly, as I had (innocently) expected it was doing?
Exactly. If ConTeXt can’t find a font, it sometimes tries to refresh the database on its own (I don’t know under which circumstances), and that can take a while. The database access is much faster.
For my huge font collection, refreshing can take several minutes...
Greetlings, Hraban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-14 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-14 9:38 Meer, Hans van der
2017-04-14 10:31 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2017-04-14 12:43 ` Meer, Hans van der
2017-04-14 18:04 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2017-04-14 18:58 ` Meer, Hans van der
2017-04-14 19:33 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2017-04-14 22:15 ` Hans Hagen
2017-04-14 10:32 ` Hans Åberg
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