Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with LyX and xetex-2021

[Stefano Crocco <posta@stefanocrocco.it>]

On domenica 11 luglio 2021 15:01:07 CEST Nils Freydank wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> I couldn't reproduce your error with xelatex at all. I took your example/MWE
> and just executed "xelatex test.tex" and it generated me a single page PDF.
> 
> A quick and dirty idea: Move ~/.texlive (e.g. to ~/.texlive-bak) and let
> texlive regenerate files there.
> 
> In my worldfile I have app-text/texlive, dev-tex/biber and dev-tex/latexmk,
> everything else are just deps.
> 
> Interestingly it works even with USE="-xetex" for texlive which in turn has
> only the following USE flags enabled:
> "X extra graphics luatex metapost music png pstricks science truetype"
> 
> Hope that helps you,
> Nils

Thanks for the answer. I tried removing the .texlive directory, but nothing 
changed. However, on my laptop it worked correctly even with texlive-2021, 
which is strange because its configuration is very similar to that of my 
desktop PC (where it doesn't work). The list of texlive-related packages is 
the same in both machines, so I can't really understand what's going on.

However, in the meanwhile, I found a workaround for the issue with LyX: 
enabling the "Use non-TeX fonts (via XeTeX/LuaTeX)" document setting makes it 
work even on the desktop PC (when I wrote the original mail, I had masked 
texlive-2021 on my laptop to have a system where LyX worked correctly; after 
discovering this workaround, I felt safe in upgrading it; I didn't think about 
testing this problem there).

I had reported this issue on the LyX bug tracker and they answered me this 
issue would be fixed in a future release.

Stefano