[XeTeX] Type2 Charstring Parser: Subroutine nested too deeply
I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font provided
to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on.
My problem is with* U+012D ( ĭ ) in boldface*. If I include \textbf{ĭ}
in the document, I get the following error (down to the end of the log
file):
** ERROR ** Type2 Charstring Parser: Subroutine nested too deeply.
Output file removed.
)
Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;
file JENSEN - i-with-breve.pdf may not be valid.
SyncTeX written on JENSEN - i-with-breve.synctex.gz.
Transcript written on JENSEN - i-with-breve.log.
The publisher says they cannot reproduce the error (but they also can't run
XeLaTeX). I don't know what other details to post here, though I'm sure the
solution will require more information than I've given. I'd appreciate any
help in working towards a solution. Thanks!
Josh Jensen
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[XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark
I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same as my previous post!) The language I work with has a letter O with circumflex and breve (U+00F4,U+0306): ô̆. However, the publisher-provided font does not use mark-to-mark positioning, so when I typeset in XeLaTeX, the combining breve overlays the circumflex. Back in January of 2013, there was discussion of this very issue, which included talk of a potentially forthcoming solution where XeTeX would handle this problem for us. Does anyone know whether there is now a straightforward way of doing this? (By *straightforward* I mean, easy for a XeTeX dabbler. I know how to load a package, how to type, and how to typeset inside TeXShop. I do not know how to program.) Thanks, and best regards! Josh Jensen -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures
Le 12/03/2014 00:03, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : 2014-03-11 23:36 GMT+01:00 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr: Le 11/03/2014 22:18, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : 2014-03-11 17:36 GMT+01:00 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr: Le 11/03/2014 15:06, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : 2014-03-11 14:44 GMT+01:00 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr: Le 11/03/2014 12:46, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : 2014-03-11 1:04 GMT+01:00 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:02:02PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote: Harfbuzz broke the indic rules Just to be clear, Pango/ICU had broken and/or incomplete Indic support, some fonts worked fine because they were specifically tested against them and adapted to their limitations, but the fonts were broken in other implementations (namely the de facto standard OpenType implementation and any other that followed it). I have just built FreeFont revision 2910 from svn Where do you find them? https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Thank you. These are the fonts coming with texlive-2013. Yes, byt TL 2013 contains the official release of FreeFont dated 2012-05-03. This release does not work with Harfbuzz. A lot of problems were fixed, the working version appeared on subversion about half year ago. Thus even a bit old revision works but definitely not the official release. Can you try to compile this sample and look at ligature tr (gotra) on first line, ligature śr on second line and ligature pr on third line. Attached, all OK with a newer version of FreeFont. Why do I get this? URL is on the project page, this is shown by svn info: svn info /usr/local/zwfonts/freefont Path: /usr/local/zwfonts/freefont Working Copy Root Path: /usr/local/zwfonts/freefont URL: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/freefont/trunk/freefont Repository Root: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/freefont Repository UUID: 3f5956db-6956-4f1c-a952-c5934ae6f67f Revision: 2910 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: Stevan_White Last Changed Rev: 2910 Last Changed Date: 2014-02-05 23:32:56 +0100 (Wed, 05 Feb 2014) You will need fontforge and run make. OK Thanks, I got them and te 3 ligatures are now ok. I am now facing a new problem, see another thread. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] Type2 Charstring Parser: Subroutine nested too deeply
Here is a Minimal Working Example. Unfortunately, the font is proprietary,
so I can't send that. What I'm hoping is that someone can point me towards
a solution or work-around in the absence of being able to examine the font
itself.
Thanks!
Josh
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Joshua and Amy josh.ruth...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font provided
to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on.
My problem is with* U+012D ( ĭ ) in boldface*. If I include \textbf{ĭ}
in the document, I get the following error (down to the end of the log
file):
** ERROR ** Type2 Charstring Parser: Subroutine nested too deeply.
Output file removed.
)
Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;
file JENSEN - i-with-breve.pdf may not be valid.
SyncTeX written on JENSEN - i-with-breve.synctex.gz.
Transcript written on JENSEN - i-with-breve.log.
The publisher says they cannot reproduce the error (but they also can't
run XeLaTeX). I don't know what other details to post here, though I'm sure
the solution will require more information than I've given. I'd appreciate
any help in working towards a solution. Thanks!
Josh Jensen
breve-bold.log
Description: Binary data
breve-bold.tex
Description: TeX document
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[XeTeX] how does xetex choose fonts?
Bonsoir, I installed the last version of Freefonts on my texlive-2013 in: /opt/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/ In order to be sure that xelatex will pick up this version, I changed the permissions of other directories containing other versions of these fonts to 000. So I change the permissions of: /opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/ /opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/ /usr/share/fonts/opentype/freefonts/ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefonts/ But if I change back the permisions of these directories to 755, xelatex chooses the old version in them. Is there a process to choose fonts? Something like unix system: 1) user's account 2) local config (/usr/local/... /opt/... 3) installed system? I ope to be clear enough. Thanks for attention. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] how does xetex choose fonts?
2014-03-12 23:05 GMT+01:00 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr: Bonsoir, I installed the last version of Freefonts on my texlive-2013 in: /opt/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/ In order to be sure that xelatex will pick up this version, I changed the permissions of other directories containing other versions of these fonts to 000. So I change the permissions of: /opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/ /opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/ /usr/share/fonts/opentype/freefonts/ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefonts/ But if I change back the permisions of these directories to 755, xelatex chooses the old version in them. Is there a process to choose fonts? Something like unix system: 1) user's account 2) local config (/usr/local/... /opt/... 3) installed system? I ope to be clear enough. As Khaled Hosny explained, in unix systems XeTeX uses what fontconfig offers. I have read fontconfig documentation and added a configuration file to my /etc//fonts/conf.d directory with higher priority so that fontconfig should find the FreeFont fonts added by me, not FreeFont from TeX Live. I did it exactly in te same way on my home computer and on my work computer. At that time I used Fedora 13 od both. It worked fine on my home computer but did not work on my work computer. Thus I forcibly uninstalled TL's FreeFont from my work computer and kept it on my home computer. A few weeks ago the same problem appeared om my home computer although I have not updated TeX Live within these few weeks. It seems that under some unpredictable circumstances fontconfig does not obey the preferences set in the configuration file, thus the best solution is to make sure, that fontconfig can find only one instance of the font. The system fonts have always the highest priority. It could be changed only by editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf but system update may overwirte such changes. The system FreeFont must be deleted and it is necessary to be careful because due to package dependencies some update can reinstall the fonts. It really happened on my notebook and I took me some time to find why things ceased to work. Thanks for attention. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark
On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote: I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same as my previous post!) The language I work with has a letter O with circumflex and breve (U+00F4,U+0306): ô̆. However, the publisher-provided font does not use mark-to-mark positioning, so when I typeset in XeLaTeX, the combining breve overlays the circumflex. Back in January of 2013, there was discussion of this very issue, which included talk of a potentially forthcoming solution where XeTeX would handle this problem for us. Does anyone know whether there is now a straightforward way of doing this? I'm the one who started the thread a year ago, and I'm very definitely interested in this problem. The post saying that this problem would soon be fixed is this one: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/024031.html namely ...next XeTeX (thanks the new HarfBuzz layout engine), will try to position the accents using their bounding boxes if the font does not have a GPOS table, so it should produce better results in this case (unless the font in question does have a GPOS table). Regards, Khaled Afaict, this does not work under the TeXLive 2013 version, at least not with this publisher's font. Am I missing s.t.? Mike Maxwell -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] Type2 Charstring Parser: Subroutine nested too deeply
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:24:02PM -0400, Joshua and Amy wrote: ** ERROR ** Type2 Charstring Parser: Subroutine nested too deeply. This suggests that either the font is broken or there is a bug in xdvipdfmx. To rule out (or verify) the first, you will need to run the font against some sort of validator and I’d recommend the tx and checkOutlines tools from AFDKO[1], or FontForge’s fontlint. Regards, Khaled 1. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko.html -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark
Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a well designed font that is fit for purpose. Andrew On 13/03/2014 10:51 AM, maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu wrote: On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote: I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same as my previous post!) The language I work with has a letter O with circumflex and breve (U+00F4,U+0306): ô̆. However, the publisher-provided font does not use mark-to-mark positioning, so when I typeset in XeLaTeX, the combining breve overlays the circumflex. Back in January of 2013, there was discussion of this very issue, which included talk of a potentially forthcoming solution where XeTeX would handle this problem for us. Does anyone know whether there is now a straightforward way of doing this? I'm the one who started the thread a year ago, and I'm very definitely interested in this problem. The post saying that this problem would soon be fixed is this one: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/024031.html namely ...next XeTeX (thanks the new HarfBuzz layout engine), will try to position the accents using their bounding boxes if the font does not have a GPOS table, so it should produce better results in this case (unless the font in question does have a GPOS table). Regards, Khaled Afaict, this does not work under the TeXLive 2013 version, at least not with this publisher's font. Am I missing s.t.? Mike Maxwell -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark
On 3/12/2014 10:19 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a well designed font that is fit for purpose. I won't disagree. We've been told by the publisher, who original built the font (or more likely subcontracted it) that the problem is a shortcoming of their OpenType font files, that could only be eliminated by revising the font as a whole. I'm inclined to tell them to go for it, or else we'll use a font that does work (Charis SIL comes to mind). That would have the unfortunate consequence that the first book in our series would use the publisher's font (we didn't have the stacked diacritic problem in that book), but the rest of the books in the series would use some other font. But in order to convince them to make such a change, I need to understand better what is involved in revising a font to make mark-to-mark positioning work. I gather that only the diacritics need the two mark-to-mark points (top and bottom) to be defined, not every character--correct? Is it done at the character level, or at the glyph level? Does it need to be done separately for each point size/ weight/ style that the font supports? And do those attachment points need to be defined manually, or is there a way to automate that process? Can this be done in a tool like FontForge, or does one need specialized tools that only the font manufacturer would have? I'm assuming that base characters already have top and bottom marks, but that may not be a safe assumption. The problems we've seen so far have been with stacked diacritics. And of course there may be a better forum than this to ask this question. -- Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu My definition of an interesting universe is one that has the capacity to study itself. --Stephen Eastmond -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
