On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:34:40PM +0300, Elie Roux wrote: > Also I just discovered something: if fc-list cannot be executed > (which is likely to be the case for TeXLive 2010) and the font > database is regenerated during a tex compilation, the font database > will loose all the OS fonts... I think the best way to fix this is > not to save the database if fc-list cannot be executed, and print a > warning message telling the user that a font has not been found and > if it should have, to launch mkluatexfontdb.
But, by then, we would have been rendered the feature useless (and even annoying) to the majority of texlive users, I'd rather drop fc-list completely and relay solely on OSFONTDIR if it won't work with texlive out of box. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
