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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 10/19/07, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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? There is no other way to get rid of them. It is impossible to control the execution of those scripts (mktextfm, mktexmf, mktexfmt, mktexpk) from C code without patching kpathsea.
Do you mean that kpathsea should support something like "please tell me if that font is available, but do not try to run mktex... even if that one is on by default"?
Something like that, yes.
In any case, I've set that option to zero and my system is slightly broken for some unknown reason today, but I will get over it somehow :)
I believe all of those scripts should be off on a modern installation.
I would agree, but as long as there are metafont fonts residing on a system and people are using them ... If I use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, I still get bitmap fonts. *That* one should be changed. Rendering of such documents on Mac's screen is almost unreadable.
The one follows from the other. mktextfm only makes sense in an environment that uses bitmap fonts.
(I even get bitmap integers inside math with ConTeXt, but I didn't manage to figure out yet whose fault that is.)
How is it possible that MikTeX has managed to solve that issue, but TeX Live not? (Or perhaps I should check it once more on some windows machine.)
You are not really using "texlive2007". Your installation is "gwTeX, based on texlive". I suspect there may be a difference in setup settings.
Hans first changed it when I "compalined" that XeTeX should not load ec-whatever and texnansi-whatever map files any more. It then turned out that metapost still needs them, so it would still be necessary to add an additional font (texnansi-lmtt10, I guess - probably because it's "almost-ascii-compatible"), but I don't know if that happened.
Apparently not. Best wishes, Taco