[XeTeX] Disable "mktextfm" and/or use of TFM-based fonts ?

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Tue, 7 Jun 2022 11:44:28 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor (Hellenic
Institute):

> As I /never/ want XeTeX to attempt to create a seemingly-missing TFM 
> file, can I configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks to inhibit this undesired 
> behaviour ? 

Perhaps by setting MKTEXTFM = 0, but I never tried if xetex honors
that. But even if that work: you would still get errors from your
code, so why bother?

> And for that matter, can I configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks 
> to inhibit any attempt to use TFM-based fonts ?

Do you really want that? Don't you use tfm based math fonts?

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Ulrike Fischer 
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