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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/06/2022 08:51, Ulrike Fischer
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Am Tue, 7 Jun 2022 11:44:28 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor (Hellenic
Institute):
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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 ?
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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?</pre>
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Thank you, I will try that. Error messages I would expeect — an
attempt to create a font (or even a font metric file), I would not —
typesetting should utilise existing resources, not attempt to create
new ones. Or to put it another way, TeX is a typesetting engine,
and should not pretend to be a poor man's "make".<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">And for that matter, can I configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks
to inhibit any attempt to use TFM-based fonts ?
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Do you really want that? Don't you use tfm based math fonts?</pre>
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<p>Not intentionally, since I rarely if ever typeset maths. But if
I <i>were </i>to need to insert a fragment of maths into a
document that I would typesetting, I would like to be warned if
XeTeX needed to fall back on the Computer Modern (or similar)
fonts.</p>
<p>-- <br>
<i>** Phil.</i><br>
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