Indexing fonts

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Mon Jan 23 01:45:20 CET 2023


Hi Peter,

> I haven't had that, and my 09-texlive.conf covers both TL font directories
> and system font directories. Did fontconfig crash while indexing or when in
> use by XeLaTeX?

Good that it works now. It was during indexing, and some time ago. I
didn't reinvestigate.

One more thing I realized concerning Debian installation (Exercise 6.2):

I don't think it makes sense to put the copy into conf.avail and link
it. I suggest to creating it directly in conf.d.

conf.avail has not functional meaning whatsoever besides making dpkg
happy. It allows users to activate and deactivate configurations
**without** removing the file which is shipped by Debian as conffile
(I don't go into details).

In our case here, dpkg does not know about 09-texlive.conf nor manages
it, so putting it directly into conf.d makes everything simpler I think.

Best

Norbert

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