On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:49:41PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > On 16/05/2010, at 7:17 PM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: > > > Le 16/05/2010 11:20, Will Robertson a écrit : > >> I'm thinking about the workflow that users will need to follow when > >> installing new system fonts for LuaLaTeX. In XeTeX, if a font is not found > >> then the font cache is refreshed to see if there have been new fonts > >> installed. > > > > Interesting. As a XeTeX user, I wasn't even aware of that :-) So, you never > > need > > to run fc-cache manually? > > Ah, no. Sorry for the confusion. > This is only true on Mac OS X, when it uses system calls and manages its own > font cache. > AFAIK, fc-cache is manually required under Linux/Windows.
Under linux, it does force fontconfig cache update, but it is very slow that I actually hate this feature (on modern Linux systems, font cache is always kept up to date). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
