On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Axelsson wrote: > > On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I believe that this is related to a FontConfig problem. You can verify > >>this, by running the console version from cmd.exe and invoking it as > >> > >> lilypond --verbose bla.ly > > > > > > Yes indeed. Lilypond sits at Initializing FontConfig... for at least > > 30 seconds on each run. In my case it may be because I fiddled with > > the system fonts a while ago, trying out (and uninstalling) Suitcase - > > a font handling program. So, how do we get the font information back > > in synch? > > > > It's understandable that reading things takes time. The strange thing is > that this should all be cached, so second runs are much quicker. Can you > check whether the font directory are changed (files (dis)appearing, > timestamps that change?) regularly? > > Also, there should be a font.cache-1 file, which caches the results. I'm > not sure where it is put on Windows, though.
Hmm, I can't find anything called font.cache-1 or even font.cache* anywhere on my computer. Perhaps this file is not created on Windows anymore? Lilypond has been slow since 2.7.12 I think. I may try installing an older version and see if the speed comes back. -- Sven Axelsson _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
