On 08/06/2022 08:51, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Tue, 7 Jun 2022 11:44:28 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor (Hellenic
Institute):
As I /never/ want XeTeX to attempt to create a seemingly-missing TFM
file, can I configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks to inhibit this undesired
behaviour ?
Perhaps by setting MKTEXTFM = 0, but I never tried if xetex honors
that. But even if that work: you would still get errors from your
code, so why bother?
Thank you, I will try that. Error messages I would expeect — an attempt
to create a font (or even a font metric file), I would not — typesetting
should utilise existing resources, not attempt to create new ones. Or
to put it another way, TeX is a typesetting engine, and should not
pretend to be a poor man's "make".
And for that matter, can I configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks
to inhibit any attempt to use TFM-based fonts ?
Do you really want that? Don't you use tfm based math fonts?
Not intentionally, since I rarely if ever typeset maths. But if I /were
/to need to insert a fragment of maths into a document that I would
typesetting, I would like to be warned if XeTeX needed to fall back on
the Computer Modern (or similar) fonts.
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