Taco:
you should check the value of the "mktextfm" feature. It seems to be on in gwTeX.
Thanks a lot for the pointer. That was an enormous speedup :) But that should probably not be the ultimate solution? Hans:
- check if the file databases are there (ls-r)
Yes.
- maybe xetex has troubles finding the fonts (system fonts?)
No, it doesn't seem so.
- maybe try to enable KPSE_DEBUG (or so) and see what lookups take place
Where can I set that flag when compiling a ConTeXt file?
This is probably unrelated to context but more to some setup problem. Keep in mind that minimals run faster anyway (upto a few seconds)
The problem is not related to the overall speed. Now I remember that Jonathan has warned me that kpathsea will try to generate a font if it's not found. That doesn't happen on standalone, but it does on "standard TeXLive". The first half of the problem has been solved by prepending file: to a bunch of definitions: \starttypescript [serif] [palatino,pagella] \definefontsynonym [Palatino] [file:texgyrepagella-regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Palatino-Italic] [file:texgyrepagella-italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Palatino-Bold] [file:texgyrepagella-bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Palatino-BoldItalic] [file:texgyrepagella-bolditalic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Palatino-Caps] [file:texgyrepagella-regular] [features=smallcaps] \definefontsynonym [Palatino-Slanted] [Palatino-Italic] \definefontsynonym [Palatino-BoldSlanted] [Palatino-BoldItalic] \stoptypescript and the second one (without that setting int exmf.cnf) still remains: ConTeXt constantly complains about missing lmtypewriter10-regular (several times per ConTeXt run - which is really annoying and slowing it down quite a bit): kpathsea: Running mktextfm lmtypewriter10-regular mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lmtypewriter10-regular This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea: Running mktexmf lmtypewriter10-regular ! I can't find file `lmtypewriter10-regular'. <*> ...; nonstopmode; input lmtypewriter10-regular Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...; nonstopmode; input lmtypewriter10-regular Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: lmtypewriter10-regular.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lmtypewriter10-regular' failed to make lmtypewriter10-regular.tfm. fonts : fails 1b: "lmtypewriter10-regular" (nullfont) fonts : succeeds 1c: "[lmtypewriter10-regular]" ("[lmtypewriter10-reg ular]" at 12.0pt) I'm sending a small patch which solves the first half of the problem, but please check it before applying (diff) to make sure that I had the latest version. It would be nice to solve that with lmtypewriter, but I still remember all the problems from one month ago, so I'm clueless ... Mojca