[tex-live] Query : prevent XeTeX from trying to create any font-related files

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 20:48:19 CEST 2018


2018-03-30 19:57 GMT+02:00 Philip Taylor (RHUoL) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:

>
>
> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>
> IIRC (it's been a long time) quoting the name is not an absolute switch;
> it's treated as a hint to look first for a system font by that name, and
> only fall back to trying it as a TFM name if not found.
>
> Ah, had not realised that ...
>
> I haven't tried it, but my impression is that setting
>
> MKTEXTFM = 0
>
> in texmf.cnf (or maybe as an environment variable? not sure...) should
> disable the attempt to automatically create missing TFMs, which is what is
> happening here.
>
> OK, many thanks, will try that.  In the meantime I tried "XeTeX --help"
> and found amongst the output the following :
>
> [-no]-mktex=FMT         disable/enable mktexFMT generation (FMT=tex/tfm)
>
>
> so that may be an alternative, and one which I can implement in TeXworks
> configuration interface (always easier than trying to work out exactly *which
> *version of "texmf.cnf" I should edit !).  Unfortunately my colleague has
> logged back in in the meantime, so I will need to wait a while to test.
>

You can try on your own computer, just make a tiny test file which requests
o nonsense font which is not available in your system.


Zdeněk Wagner
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