Yes, it's an odd thing - even odder now since the last two runs have been much faster. This without any intervention from me. It will be interesting to see what happens when I switch off and resume tomorrow. But it's not a serious issue for me at the moment since I'm only using the machine to experiment with various features of the program.
Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 at 16:56, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 6/22/2025 5:43 PM, John Was wrote: > > Hello > > > > I completely removed all iterations of texlive from the spare computer > > I'm using for ConTexT (which is quite old - 2013), and reinstalled > > texlive this morning. I'm still getting the same long list of font > > files being checked, but the run is down to 20 seconds if I log on as > > administrator, and that's just about tolerable for now while I'm > > experimenting. I may set up on a more modern machine in the fullness of > > time! > > it should not regenerate the font database every time; maybe only when a > font is not found by name > > luametatex (lmtx) was mostly developped on a 2013 machine and the > current one is a 2018 one ... and the difference is actualy not large > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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