Re: Partly OT: some luatex questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:49:54 +0200 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:
> 
>>> Perfect. With this version both spacing problems are solved.
>>   Glad to hear that.  But the problem with MnSymbol is still there,
>> isn't it? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> I can reproduce it using MnSymbol5.otf with my code and
>> -- what's more worrying -- with ConTeXt itself. 
> 
> I don't find this very worrying: Bugs which can be reproduced on common
> systems can be solved more easily. ;-)

taco and i spent quite some time today in testing lots of fonts, and we 
think that in the latest beta locating by name works ok; however, there 
are so many weird fonts out there that we probably need to spend a week 
figuring out what to do with them .. be tolerant or just reject them; 
currently our tests with many (also very huge) fonts run into problems 
due to memory usage when finalizing the pdf file (we're talking gig's of 
memory here) so that's another issue we will try to address (sometime 
after the context conference)

in any case in mkiv we will have some mechanism where certain fonts are 
rejected from the name database (one can still load them by file: but at 
least they dont get reported then by --list); think of those cm super 
fonts

Hans

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