Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:39:32AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 12:19 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: The problem is that OpenType is hard, you already know that. ConTeXt will never be able to dedicate enough resources to catch up with development, so it makes much sense to reuse the

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/13/2013 10:15 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On 10/12/2013 12:19 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: The problem is that OpenType is hard, you already know that. ConTeXt will never be able to dedicate enough resources to catch up with development, so it makes much sense to reuse the efforts of other

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.orgwrote: An external module is fine by me, I’m not concerned about LuaTeX itself since even the current loader is not integrated, I’m rather concerned about the ability to use the new loader and shaper with ConTeXt. A minimal

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:19:16AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 2:15 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: ···date: 2013-10-12, Saturday···from: Hans Hagen··· On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM, Thangalin wrote: Hi (Copperplate is going to be added soon.) Unfortunately, Context Keep in mind it was

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:05:03PM -0700, Thangalin wrote: In that case I'd run a separate font checker, as you never know what users upload. Similar issues can occur with those tagged formats that are in fact linked lists. That's a good idea. The TTX font tool was going to be my first

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/12/2013 9:27 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:19:16AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 2:15 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: ···date: 2013-10-12, Saturday···from: Hans Hagen··· On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM, Thangalin wrote: Hi (Copperplate is going to be added soon.)

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/12/2013 10:52 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:05:03PM -0700, Thangalin wrote: In that case I'd run a separate font checker, as you never know what users upload. Similar issues can occur with those tagged formats that are in fact linked lists. That's a good idea. The

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 10/12/2013 10:52 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:05:03PM -0700, Thangalin wrote: In that case I'd run a separate font checker, as you never know what users upload. Similar issues can occur with those

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:18:47AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 9:27 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:19:16AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 2:15 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: ···date: 2013-10-12, Saturday···from: Hans Hagen··· On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM,

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/12/2013 12:19 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: The problem is that OpenType is hard, you already know that. ConTeXt will never be able to dedicate enough resources to catch up with development, so it makes much sense to reuse the efforts of other free software projects. HarfBuzz is used by much

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A font causes mtxrun to hang upon reloading. Replicate: mkdir $HOME/.fonts cd $HOME/.fonts wget http://whitemagicsoftware.com/Copperplate-ThirtyThreeBC.ttf export OSFONTDIR=$HOME/.fonts mtxrun --script fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/11/2013 8:55 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com mailto:thanga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A font causes mtxrun to hang upon reloading. Replicate: mkdir $HOME/.fonts cd $HOME/.fonts wget

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A font causes mtxrun to hang upon reloading. Replicate: mkdir $HOME/.fonts cd $HOME/.fonts wget http://whitemagicsoftware.com/Copperplate-ThirtyThreeBC.ttf export OSFONTDIR=$HOME/.fonts mtxrun --script fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A font causes mtxrun to hang upon reloading. Replicate: mkdir $HOME/.fonts cd $HOME/.fonts wget

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On Oct 11, 2013, at 1:55 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A font causes mtxrun to hang upon reloading. Replicate:

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Thangalin
Hi, The font does not render properly in Inkscape, yet does not cause Inkscape to hang. (That is, I can select and apply the font to text, but it is obviously not in the same family.) As Taco mentioned, the font file is corrupt.

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/11/2013 2:02 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On Oct 11, 2013, at 1:55 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A font causes

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Thangalin
FYI, I didn't know that the font was corrupt. I have over 400 fonts on my machine, and had to reload to pick up the new ones. You'll find that having a large number of fonts will start to become a common situation as more fonts become public (e.g., Google's Free Web Fonts project). This increases

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Philipp Gesang
···date: 2013-10-11, Friday···from: Thangalin··· FYI, I didn't know that the font was corrupt. I have over 400 fonts on my machine, and had to reload to pick up the new ones. You'll find that having a large number of fonts will start to become a common situation as more fonts become public

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Thangalin
Hi (Copperplate is going to be added soon.) Unfortunately, Context Keep in mind it was only Copperplate 33 BC. Also note that I could not find any version of Copperplate 33 BC online that had the same file size as my corrupt version. (I was trying to find the source of the corrupt copy.) Most

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/12/2013 12:26 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: ···date: 2013-10-11, Friday···from: Thangalin··· FYI, I didn't know that the font was corrupt. I have over 400 fonts on my machine, and had to reload to pick up the new ones. You'll find that having a large number of fonts will start to become a

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM, Thangalin wrote: Hi (Copperplate is going to be added soon.) Unfortunately, Context Keep in mind it was only Copperplate 33 BC. Also note that I could not find any version of Copperplate 33 BC online that had the same file size as my corrupt version. (I was trying to

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Philipp Gesang
···date: 2013-10-12, Saturday···from: Hans Hagen··· On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM, Thangalin wrote: Hi (Copperplate is going to be added soon.) Unfortunately, Context Keep in mind it was only Copperplate 33 BC. Also note that I could not find any version of Copperplate 33 BC online that had

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/12/2013 2:15 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: ···date: 2013-10-12, Saturday···from: Hans Hagen··· On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM, Thangalin wrote: Hi (Copperplate is going to be added soon.) Unfortunately, Context Keep in mind it was only Copperplate 33 BC. Also note that I could not find any

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-11 Thread Thangalin
Hi, sure, but fonts should be chosen with care .. and illegal ripoffs should be avoided (those cd's with hundreds of fonts, nowadays sites) See: https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory (quality of design / digitization, completeness of coverage, correctness of features ... much can be

[NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-10 Thread Thangalin
Hi, A font causes mtxrun to hang upon reloading. Replicate: mkdir $HOME/.fonts cd $HOME/.fonts wget http://whitemagicsoftware.com/Copperplate-ThirtyThreeBC.ttf export OSFONTDIR=$HOME/.fonts mtxrun --script fonts --reload Expected Results All the fonts in $HOME/.fonts and subdirectories are