Choice of processor

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Sun Mar 2 21:45:03 CET 2025


On 02/03/2025 16:56, David Carlisle wrote:

> In most cases luatex finds fonts more easily than xetex. Xetex will only 
> find fonts in the tex tree if accessed by filename unless you configure 
> fontconfig to index the tex tree, 

Which has been my recommendation until now.

> conversely luatex searches the tex 
> tree and the system fonts out of the box.

OK, thank you.

I will be doing a virgin install of TL on a stable system in a few weeks,
so I will be documenting the setup.

Peter


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