From a4d0725cce7f78e295491e7e969eff3c0aa07bef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Gesang Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 23:54:04 +0200 Subject: [init] force preloading of the character table --- src/luaotfload-auxiliary.lua | 9 +++++---- src/luaotfload-init.lua | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/luaotfload-auxiliary.lua b/src/luaotfload-auxiliary.lua index 648c1d3..2c2624e 100644 --- a/src/luaotfload-auxiliary.lua +++ b/src/luaotfload-auxiliary.lua @@ -301,10 +301,11 @@ aux.name_of_slot = name_of_slot --[[doc-- In Context, characters.data is where the data from char-def.lua - resides. The file is huge (>3.7 MB as of 2013) and not part of the - isolated font loader. Nevertheless, we include a partial version - generated by the mkcharacters script that contains only the - a subset of the fields of each character defined. + resides. The file is huge (>4.4 MB as of 2016) and only a stripped + down version is part of the isolated font loader. Nevertheless, we + include an excerpt generated by the mkcharacters script that contains + a subset of the fields of each character defined and some extra + metadata. Currently, these are (compare the mkcharacters script!) diff --git a/src/luaotfload-init.lua b/src/luaotfload-init.lua index dd2fc95..096d778 100644 --- a/src/luaotfload-init.lua +++ b/src/luaotfload-init.lua @@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ local init_main = function () or "reference" fontloader = tostring (fontloader) + --- Preload the characters table. This may vanish later. + characters = luaotfload.loaders.luaotfload "characters" + if fontloader == "reference" then logreport ("log", 0, "init", "Using reference fontloader.") load_fontloader_module (luaotfload.fontloader_package) -- cgit v1.2.3