> > So lulaatex seems to really use the HOME directory. Yes, of course, because it has to update the font database.
Complain to the author of the whole setup about extra font database in lua format (Hans Hagen of ConTeXt) for that requirement, but that is the way it is. Lualatex maintains a database of all the otf/ttf fonts decomposed into lua code. Ah and yes, that has been the case already since ages. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13