allowing use of fonts across texlive versions
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Jun 12 14:21:15 CEST 2021
On 2021-06-12 at 13:04:10 +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:28:28 +0200 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:
>
>
> > Would it be possible to move the fonts from texmf-dist into a
> > separate texmf-tree say texmf-fonts?
>
> Markus suggested to me off-list to use symlinks, something I hadn't
> considered because I thought it doesn't work on windows (I think it
> didn't at some time). But it works now. I needed admin rights but
> then could create a symbolic link with mklink and it seems work.
>
> It is a bit confusing as the windows explorer don't show the folder
> and all log-files show "C:\texlive\2020", I hope I will remember
> that this pathes are symbolic ;-)
Can Windows compress parts of your file system?
Regards,
Reinhard
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