Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/25/2013 7:01 AM, Schmitz Thomas A. wrote:

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On 24 Oct 2013, at 16:44, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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You need to set it to a dummy directory! See: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/136073/323

No, even that doesn’t help:

echo $OSFONTDIR /tmp/dummy

and then on a first run (after regnerating the format with this variable set), I get lines such as

fonts > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/Users/tas/Library/Fonts' fonts > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/Library/Fonts' fonts > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/System/Library/Fonts' fonts > names > globbing path '/System/Library/Fonts/**.OTF' fonts > names > 68 system files identified, 2 skipped, 2 duplicates, 66 hash entries added, runtime 43.223 seconds

So something appears to be overriding the variable that I set. But what? And why? And how do I stop it?

On 24 Oct 2013, at 23:40, Hans Hagen wrote:

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I don't understand the speed issue. We're talking about relatively few fonts only and context will not scan them unless there is a change. After a remake a rescan takes < 9 sec on my laptop and < 6 sec once the directories have been cached (windows 8 / 64 bit / i7 / ssd).

Only an initial full scan takes a while (deleted cache), but that's mostly because I have a pretty large font collection in my texmf-fonts tree.

You’re right of course that it’s only the initial run when a new font cache has to be built, but the time I get on os x is much longer than what you report:

with rescanning of system fonts: system | total runtime: 114.131 (yes, that’s almost 2 minutes!)

And I don’t want to twiddle my thumbs for two minutes, and don’t want to use those “system fonts” (or if I want to use them, I will copy them to my texmf directories)!

hm, i wonder why that takes so long as i get:

tex tree:

561 tree files identified, 5 skipped, 5 duplicates, 556 hash entries added, runtime 14.282 seconds 426 tree files identified, 7 skipped, 5 duplicates, 419 hash entries added, runtime 12.297 seconds 8 tree files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 8 hash entries added, runtime 0.188 seconds 0 tree files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.156 seconds 677 tree files identified, 1 skipped, 1 duplicates, 676 hash entries added, runtime 0.672 seconds

system:

2 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 2 hash entries added, runtime 0.047 seconds 437 system files identified, 57 skipped, 57 duplicates, 380 hash entries added, runtime 20.001 seconds 20 system files identified, 1 skipped, 1 duplicates, 19 hash entries added, runtime 0.063 seconds 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.031 seconds 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.047 seconds

That is similar to what I get (regular hard drive, no SSD) mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force | grep time fonts | names | 757 tree files identified, 245 skipped, 244 duplicates, 512 hash entries added, runtime 7.720 seconds fonts | names | 224 tree files identified, 60 skipped, 48 duplicates, 164 hash entries added, runtime 3.052 seconds fonts | names | 2 tree files identified, 1 skipped, 1 duplicates, 1 hash entries added, runtime 0.404 seconds fonts | names | 0 tree files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.406 seconds fonts | names | 1503 tree files identified, 210 skipped, 113 duplicates, 1293 hash entries added, runtime 1.034 seconds fonts | names | 50 system files identified, 14 skipped, 14 duplicates, 36 hash entries added, runtime 4.429 seconds fonts | names | 126 system files identified, 21 skipped, 21 duplicates, 105 hash entries added, runtime 0.548 seconds fonts | names | 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.005 seconds fonts | names | 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.005 seconds fonts | names | 35 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 35 hash entries added, runtime 0.007 seconds fonts | names | total scan time 39.783 seconds Aditya