[luatex] MacTex 2013 + updates, typesetting with lualatex takes ages

Stefan Krüger stadtkind2 at gmx.de
Thu Jul 11 15:43:46 CEST 2013


On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Stefan Krüger wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after running tlmgr update --all, typesetting (all my documents!) the
> following the document with lualatex:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{luatextra}
> \begin{document}
> Hello, world.
> \end{document}
> 
> takes ages here. :(
> 
> real	0m53.85s
> user	0m50.92s
> sys	0m2.24s
> 
> Adding the following line
> 
> \setmainfont{Helvetica Neue}
> 
> makes it crawl even more:
> 
> real	11m35.54s
> user	11m6.48s
> sys	0m22.06s
> 
> The lualatex process spins on 1 CPU with ~ 100 % user. Any idea what could
> cause this?
> 
> PS: xelatex and pdflatex are fine
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stefan

Hi,

replying to myself, this seems to be fixed by running
luaotfload-tool --update --force -vv (thanks to Ulrike Fischer).

Also thanks to Philipp Gesang for fixing the issue with fonts which contain
spaces in the file name(s).

:)


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