[lltx] Fwd: [tex-live] fontspec for LuaTeX

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 01:11:43PM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> Hi Will,
> 
> > By simply commenting out the line:
> > 
> > -- path = kpse.readable_file(path)
> >
> > mkluatexfontdb -vvv --database-dir=destdir
> > ran (it needed long time, since I have large otf fonts).
> > But destdir/otfl-names.lua
> > is empty! (the file exists but it is empty).
> 
> I have tried by reducing the number of search directory.
> Then the database destdir/otfl-names.lua was successfully
> created (463 fonts are written in the database):
> ... ...
> luaotfload | 463 fonts in the database
> luaotfload | saved font names database in c:/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/luatex/luaotfload/names/otfl-names.lua
> 
> If I search all directories, mkluatexfontdb exits silently
> after parsing all fonts, without the above message,
> and the database is empty.
> 
> Is there any restriction on the total number of fonts?

No, there isn't, I used to run the script against more than 3000 fonts.

You can try to increase verbosity level and see what is going on.

Regards,
 Khaled

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