Problem of space in font names

Problem of space in font names

[Mehdi Omidali]

Hi,
I have noticed that luatex can not handle fonts with space in their
names. I haven't had this problem in the past but now it happens in
the latest context minimal both on windows and linux.
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Re: Problem of space in font names

[Hans Hagen]

Mehdi Omidali wrote:
> Hi,
> I have noticed that luatex can not handle fonts with space in their
> names. I haven't had this problem in the past but now it happens in
> the latest context minimal both on windows and linux.

spaces are always tricky ... in mkiv just omit the spaces (internally 
all font names are stripped from spaces and special characters and 
treated lowercase), so "Abc Def-GhI" becomes "abcdefghi" anyway


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Re: Problem of space in font names

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mehdi Omidali wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have noticed that luatex can not handle fonts with space in their
>> names. I haven't had this problem in the past but now it happens in
>> the latest context minimal both on windows and linux.
>
> spaces are always tricky ... in mkiv just omit the spaces (internally all
> font names are stripped from spaces and special characters and treated
> lowercase), so "Abc Def-GhI" becomes "abcdefghi" anyway

Hello Hans,

I agree that spaces are tricky, but XeTeX does require those spaces
for example\footnote{Yes, yes, I know what you wanted to repy about
XeTeX. I would rename the font as well, but on the other hand being
able to use the same definition for bothe engines is only a benefit.}.
As long as the syntax is clear:
    [file:Some Name With Spaces]
this should be accepted in my opinion. If you store font names without
spaces and dashes in database, it might make sense to strip the name
in a similar manner here before trying to access the database and ask
it to give back the font.

Mojca
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