Re: Lilypond taking forever to typeset

[Werner LEMBERG]

> It would be good if we could make use of some sort of callback or
> anything in Freetype2 (?) when it knows it is likely to spend a lot
> of time like this.

I think this should be rather done in fontconfig...

> Or if we can predict the "cache does not exist" situation reliably,
> we could trigger the cache rebuild explicitly with a suitable pair
> of messages around it?

I will ask on the fontconfig list how to detect that.


    Werner