Re: xdvipdfmx:fatal: Unable to find TFM file "latt1095".

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Samstag, den 21.11.2020, 18:29 +0100 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > >     xdvipdfmx:fatal: Unable to find TFM file "latt1095".
> > 
> > I noticed the same some time ago, in fact it also occurred with GUB
> > during one of the releases.  My *guess* is that there is a race
> > between multiple texi2pdf invocations that produce the file if it's
> > not there.  I think this was somehow introduced by an update of
> > cyrillic.itexi
> > (https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/361, was the
> > only change that stood out when I first saw it failing) which talks
> > about "latt", but I didn't investigate.
> 
> AFAIK, the TFM files (and even the master MF files) for the Cyrillic
> LA font family are created on the fly.  What about explicitly
> creating them as a make prerequisite?
> 
>   mktextfm latt1095
>   mktextfm larm1095

If this is possible, we should certainly do this. But please generate
the files in the build directory by specifying --destdir (and use them
from there), putting things in a cache directory located in the user's
$HOME directory is IMHO a very poor default choice...

Jonas

> Note that normally TeXLive is configured to use PFB files from the
> 'cm-super' font family for Cyrillic, which is `sftt1095.pfb` and
> `sfrm1095.pfb` in this case.
> 
> 
>     Werner

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