Re: MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

["Schmitz Thomas A." <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

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)!

Thomas
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