LyX and font caching

[José Matos]

I think that this is related with math preview.

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 18:23 Michael Dean Pugh <mdpugh at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I hope someone can explain the problem I am having, because I am stumped.
> I am creating a few new fonts with various mathematics symbols.  As a
> result, I periodically compile documents which use them so that I can see
> what the new fonts look like in context.  Some of these documents are
> written in LyX, others in straight LaTeX.  These fonts are .otf and in both
> cases, I am using XeLaTeX/XeTeX for compilation.  Here's the strange part.
> Today, I noticed that the changes I had recently made to the font were not
> showing up in the LyX compilation.  But they are showing up in the LaTeX
> compilation.  What is weirder is that changes to the document itself *do* show
> up in LyX—it is the font that is not changing.  So I thought, well,
> something is getting cached somewhere.  It gets even weirder.  I deleted
> one of the fonts.  My LaTeX compilation now gives errors because it cannot
> find the font, but LyX still compiles—albeit displaying the document
> using the old version of the font.  What is getting cached, by what, and
> where?  I'm mystified.
>
> Thank you,
> Mike Pugh
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