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From: Philipp Gesang <Philipp.Gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Bug: Reloading Font
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 02:15:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131012001506.GC24051@tartaros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52589185.8080801@wxs.nl>


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···<date: 2013-10-12, Saturday>···<from: Hans Hagen>···

> On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM, Thangalin wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >> (Copperplate is going to be added soon.) Unfortunately, Context
> >
> > Keep in mind it was only Copperplate 33 BC. Also note that I could not
> > find any version of Copperplate 33 BC online that had the same file
> > size as my corrupt version. (I was trying to find the source of the
> > corrupt copy.)
> >
> > Most other copies, I'd imagine, are fine, so don't be too quick to blacklist it.
> 
> indeed, and when you don't notice that it's blacklisted, it can happen 
> that this one instance gets unnoticed
> 
> >> does not yet have blacklisting functionality (it’s marked as todo
> >> in the source) so you’re going to have to filter out bad files
> >> from your font directories by hand.
> >
> > Sounds like the real solution is to fix fontforge so that it doesn't hang.
> 
> sure, although a crash has the nice advantage of knowing that a font 
> (collection) is crap (which i then can blacklist permanently in my mind)

Sure, but there’s a difference between a crash and a freeze. The
latter can be quite annoying for those who work with strange
editors that run TeX somewhere in the background making it
impossible to kill the process using Ctrl-C.

Philipp


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-12  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-11  3:35 Thangalin
2013-10-11  6:55 ` luigi scarso
2013-10-11  7:59   ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-11  8:59 ` luigi scarso
2013-10-11 11:55   ` luigi scarso
2013-10-11 12:02     ` Taco Hoekwater
2013-10-11 15:19       ` Thangalin
2013-10-11 21:16       ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-11 21:39         ` Thangalin
2013-10-11 22:26           ` Philipp Gesang
2013-10-11 22:48             ` Thangalin
2013-10-12  0:02               ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-12  0:15                 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2013-10-12  0:19                   ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-12  7:27                     ` Khaled Hosny
2013-10-12  9:18                       ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-12 10:19                         ` Khaled Hosny
2013-10-12 22:39                           ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-13  8:15                             ` Khaled Hosny
2013-10-13  9:49                               ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-13 11:48                               ` luigi scarso
2013-10-11 23:53             ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-12  3:05               ` Thangalin
2013-10-12  8:52                 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-10-12  9:20                   ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-12  9:29                     ` luigi scarso

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