On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 06:52:41PM GMT, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Mon, 20 May 2024 10:40:35 -0400
> schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>:
> 
> > On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 03:11:41PM GMT, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > > Am Mon, 20 May 2024 14:27:26 +0200
> > > schrieb "Jürgen Spitzmüller" <jspi...@gmail.com>:
> > >   
> > > > Am Montag, dem 20.05.2024 um 11:40 +0200 schrieb Kornel Benko:  
> > > > > Some russian documents fail  
> > > > 
> > > > They work for me if I set appropriate fonts. What error do you get?  
> > > 
> > > After rerunning the Russian tests, they passed here too. Interestingly 
> > > the needed time
> > > was way smaller (instead of about 1000s now they needed each 30-60s).  
> > 
> > The problem with those tests is that, from the little that I understand,
> > LuaTeX does not generate the fonts needed. The reason they pass on your
> > second try is that other engines do generate the fonts.
> > 
> > In lyx-tester I build the fonts manually before running the tests. It is
> > hackish, but you can see it here:
> > 
> >   
> > https://gitlab.com/scottkosty/lyx-tester/-/blob/master/lyx-tester?ref_type=heads#L561
> > Probably a better hack would be to run the other tests first. e.g., we
> > could add some dependencies like "pdf5 and dvi3 test for Russian
> > documents must be run after the pdf2 tests", but I don't know if that's
> > possible with the ctests.
> 
> I don't see a way to order the tests. Maybe run first run xelatex tests
>  with '-R pdf4_systemF' and then run with added '-E pdf4_systemF'

Makes the most sense.

> 
> > I asked a question for alternative workarounds:
> > 
> >   
> > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/649259/can-i-ask-luatex-to-run-mktextfm
> 
> Not much help there :(

Oh well. At least the pain was enough to stick out in my mind so that I
remember it since it will come up at every new installation.

Scott

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