From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43209 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Partly OT: some luatex questions Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:08:14 +0200 Message-ID: <48A490AE.4020200@wxs.nl> References: <20080813210743.GA21092@phare.normalesup.org> <115224fb0808140058i4d85aaf9t5e02c2787ff4611c@mail.gmail.com> <1jma8p9cgq57.dlg@nililand.de> <115224fb0808140244jac3bda9gc93c6dd8aa8e183c@mail.gmail.com> <1jd1l5yycmkgu.dlg@nililand.de> <20080814134954.GE21092@phare.normalesup.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218744729 30176 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2008 20:12:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:12:09 +0000 (UTC) To: news2@nililand.de, mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 14 22:13:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KTjBp-0006cl-Mv for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:12:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF131FE98; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:11:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14325-06-17; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:11:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3144A1FC90; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:08:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3761FEFF for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:08:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14019-02-10 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:08:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22951FEF2 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:08:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 12200-1840426 for multiple; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:08:14 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:43209 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________