[luatex] Assigning non-existent fontdimens is broken

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:46:11PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 12:19:48PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >>Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >>>Assigning non-existent fontdimens always raises " Font \ff has only XX
> >>>fontdimen parameters" error, though the assignment is just after
> >>>defining the font.
> >>>
> >>>The following raises error with luatex, but OK with tex and pdftex:
> >>>
> >>>\font\ff=ec-lmr10
> >>>\fontdimen46\ff=10pt
> >>>\the\fontdimen46\ff
> >>>\bye
> >>Fixed in the repository in branches/0.60.x/
> >
> >But now luatex doesn't complain when one attempts to access a non
> >defined fontdimen, it just returns a zero value.
> 
> This matches TeX82's behavior.

Right, I had a broken test file.

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 Khaled Hosny
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