[lltx] location of font cache /fontspec and microtype

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Jun 24 13:56:31 CEST 2010


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:10:32AM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Le 24/06/2010 04:47, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> > 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.
> > 
> Anyway, TEXMFCACHE is quite conTeXt specific and it's not even sure that conTeXt
> will continue using it (at least in TL) once it'll become more multi-user. OTOH,
> TEXMFVAR has been there for many years now and will probably always be, and is
> well suited for this kind of thing.
> 
> So, even if TL'10 had a TEXMFCACHE variable, I'd recommend sticking to TEXMFVAR.

I just don't want to patch context files for no strong reason, the less
the difference the easier my life.

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


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