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<p>I am working over a slow and unreliable remote desktop connection
to a colleague's computer who needs to be able to replicate my
work on the Lambeth Palace Catalogue of Greek MSS. At the moment,
his system lacks some of the required fonts, but trying to
identify exactly <i>which </i>fonts are lacking is proving very
difficult, because rather than simply reporting that a certain
font cannot be found, XeTeX is trying to create TFM, MF, and
whatever files for the missing fonts. This appears to take an
eternity, and it may even have hung. The last part of the console
log reads as follows :</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Output
written on Master.pdf (552 pages).<br>
SyncTeX written on Master.synctex.gz.</p>
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margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Transcript
written on Master.log.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:make_tex:
Invalid filename `Gill Sans MT Condensed:color=BF0000',
contains ' '</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:make_tex:
Invalid filename `Gill Sans MT Condensed:color=BF0000',
contains ' '</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:make_tex:
Invalid filename `Gill Sans MT Condensed:color=FFFFFE00',
contains ' '</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:make_tex:
Invalid filename `Traditional Arabic', contains ' '</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:make_tex:
Invalid filename `Traditional Arabic', contains ' '</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:
Running mktextfm Optima</p>
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margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">The
command name is
C:\Users\Public\TeX\Live\2018\bin\win32\mktextfm</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:
Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.</p>
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<p>Now it is completely unclear to me why XeTeX is trying to create
TFM/MF/whatever files at all, since all fonts are referenced using
the quoted-string syntax that indicate to XeTeX that these are
system (Truetype/Opentype) fonts, not TeX fonts with associated
TFM/MF/whatever files. However, I am less concerned with <i>why</i>
it is trying to create these files than I am in simply inhibiting
the behaviour. May I therefore ask the <i>cognoscenti </i>how I
can prevent XeTeX from trying to create any font-related files at
all ? Please note that XeTeX is being launched from TeXworks,
which may restrict the set of possible solutions.</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance :<br>
Philip Taylor<br>
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