Re: xelatex running maketextfm far too often

Thanks Karl!

On Mon, 08 Dec 2025, Karl Berry wrote:
> Anything's possible, you know that :). Untested, off the top of my head:
> 1) xelatex --no-mktex=tfm
> 2) set envvar MKTEXTFM_xelatex=0, or MKTEXTFM in general.
> 3) set MKTEXTFM.xelatex=0 in a texmf.cnf.

Yup, good options.

> We could/should? do this in the default texmf.cnf.  But if someone tries
> to use the good old larm* etc. Cyrillic fonts, it will be awfully

Good point. We have these cases here at arXiv.
(side question: why don't we have tfm files for all the fonts installed?
In the case we see, no actual Cyrillic glyph was used, but the tfm must
be loaded in any case).

fontspec probably should remember that it tried to load it already once
without success.

Best regards

Norbert

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