[tex-live] fc-cache documentation ?

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all,

> So this boils down to the following question:
> 
>   Is fontconfig automatically run Windows if a font changes (in one of
>   the directories observed by fontconfig)?

No.

> Or to formulate it differently:
> 
>   On Windows, does TeXLive install fontconfig as a background program
>   that is capable of monitoring the system font directories?  [Note
>   that it is not necessary to handle fonts within TeXLive, AFAIK,
>   since XeTeX and friends can use the texlsr data base.]

No.

fontconfig and tools is installed and during installation a one
time fc-cache run is performed.

>   On Windows, does the TeXLive installer provides an interface to
>   configure the directories observed by fontconfig?

No.

Norbert

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