[lltx] location of font cache /fontspec and microtype

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Jun 24 04:47:16 CEST 2010


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:31:29AM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Le 24/06/2010 00:03, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard a écrit :
> > Le 23/06/2010 17:46, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:26:41PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> 1. The script mkluatexfontdb claims:
> >>>
> >>> "The output database file is named otfl-fonts.lua. By default it is
> >>> placed
> >>> in $TEXMFVAR/luatex/generic/luaotfload/names"
> >>>
> >>> Well in my case is not there but in the same root where the script
> >>> resides in tex/luatex/luaotfload/names. 
> >>
> >> That was the old place, I forgot to update the documentation.
> >>
> >> Now it is $TEXMFVAR/luatex-cache/generic/names.
> >>
> > Are you sure? I thought it was $TEXMFVAR/tex/luatex/luaotfload/names now...
> > 
> Ok, I just saw the thread on the TL list, so I see you changed that. IMO, it's
> better to use TEXMFVAR (and a consistent TDS location under that) rather than
> TEXMFCACHE which is a context specific thing.

I just fixed that VARTEXMF typo, so it should work again now. I thought
texlive-2010 had TEXMFCACHE so I added it to my texlive-2009 texmf.cnf,
that is why I didn't notice it before, I just switched to 2010 pretest.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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