[tex-live] TL'09 pretest & XeTeX: "Cannot find Constantia.mf"

[Joel C. Salomon]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 06 Jul 2009, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>> I suspect that, for some reason, XɘTeX has not been properly set up to
>> find the Windows font directory.  Is there a way for me to check on this?
> 
> Can you please try:
> 	tlmgr install --reinstall xetex
> and check that *after* that the call to
> 	fc-list
> actually lists something.
> 
> Then retry your example.
> 
> It seems that something at initial installation is broken, but tlmgr
> does it right afterwards ;-)

It takes a *very* long time, but now fc-cache is happily spitting out
many thousands of lines about my system fonts.  Anyway, now the test
file compiles.

I’m going to retry the installation tomorrow and see what happens.

—Joel Salomon