Re: 2013.03.21 broken nightly?

From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>,
	mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 2013.03.21 broken nightly?
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:21:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A647B26B-0445-4065-B847-3C453F2DD821@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514CEDD9.1080403@wxs.nl>

Am 23.03.2013 um 00:48 schrieb Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:

> On 3/23/2013 12:04 AM, Kip Warner wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 23:58 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> It looks like something is messed up on the garden ...
>>> 
>>> http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-simplefonts.zip
>>> 
>>> has a mkiv file while there should be a mkvi file but the timestamp is
>>> 2013.
>> 
>> Hey Hans. Good eye.
>> 
>>> so, in your case, get rid of the t-simplefont.mkiv file to start with
>> 
>> I removed that file, but get the following error:
>> 
>>         ! Undefined control sequence.
>>         <argument> \????sf
>>                            :\v!style :\v!serif
>>         \setvalue #1->\expandafter \def \csname #1
>>                                                   \endcsname
>>         l.256 \setvalue{\????sf:\v!style :\v!serif      }
>>                                                          {rm}
>>         E
>>         ? You want to edit
>>         file /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.mkvi at line 256
> 
> hm, only wolfgang can say what is wrong ... it looks like that module is a half finished transition towards a new state

I stopped with the conversion from MkIV to MkVI of the module midway because
the whole code is a mess and just changing macro names and using the command
handler doesn’t help to improve. it.

> i can try to fix it but it's probably better is wolfgang does that .. he could as well have a good file on his system

I have a rewritten version of the code on my system but it still lacks a few features.

It was written from scratch and is cleaner, supports optical sizes and uses the spec
information to find fonts but gives not always the same results because of wrong
information is fonts (e.g. the width is stored as medium instead of normal or bold).

> in the meantime, what you can try is to delete the mkvi file and use the older mkiv file (as that one seems to work)

The MkVI file was never part of the package on the garden, I have the file only on
my system and you can find it in the public repository on bitbucket (online source hoster).

Wolfgang
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