Hi, Hans:
here is the solution to your great feature:
change
\def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
in font-ini.mkii to
\def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
to disable that feature.
Yue Wang
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Yue Wang <yuleo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>>
>>> moreover, can you tell me why pdftex load these fonts so fast? (also 6
>>> families * 3 sizes)
>>
>> i don't know; as the same code is used so it must be xetex itself then
>
> Then let me tell you why: ConTeXt tries to load lmmono10-regular at
> least 6 times, failed after two testing, then succeed in the end.
> However, try to testing whether a loaded font is \nullfont or not is
> quite slow in XeTeX (Jonathan already mentioned that in
> \testFontIsAvailable). we should definately avoid that.
> But why pdftex is so fast? because it does not involve font testing.
>
> So why XeTeX is spending 6 seconds aimlessly? since ConTeXt asked it
> to search for a non-existed font.
>
> Yue Wang
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