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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Werner LEMBERG wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">how is the "normal" user to learn (a) of
its existence, and (b) of its potential importance.</blockquote>
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cite="mid:20160827.115959.1973262805799635454.wl@gnu.org"
type="cite">The question is fully legitimate.
It's the usual discrepance between developers and users. People
who
start with coding often change to a unix-like platform because
command
line tools like TeX are natural there. However, Joe User stays on
Windows and needs different, much enlarged documentation because
the
basics are so different.
In particular, FontConfig (which fc-cache is part of) runs on
virtually all GNU/Linux or BSD boxes *automatically* because it is
the
de-facto font managing standard on unix-like boxes.<br>
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Thank you for acknowledging the validity of the question, Werner.
But I am still puzzled as to know how how Knuth's "B L User" is
intended to (a) learn of the existence of fc-cache (and presumably,
some of the other fc-tools), (b) understand their potential
importance in terms of the run-time for XeTeX and friends, and (c)
learn how/when to invoke fc-cache. Having posted my question
earlier, I then thought that perhaps the reason that TeXdoc has no
entry for "fc-cache" is because one is not intended to invoke it
directly, but rather through (e.g.,) "tlmgr" However, I then ran
"TeXdoc tlmgr" and found no mention of fc-cache therein. So, is
there any part of TeX Live that interacts with fc-cache (or with any
other element of fontconfig), or is the latter a completely separate
subsystem on which TeX Live depends but does not invoke directly nor
document in any way ? TeXdoc fontconfig also returns "Topic
unknown".<br>
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Philip Taylor</div>
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