[tex-live] PTeX engine

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Jun 27 21:47:54 CEST 2010


On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 09:05:45PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 27.06.2010 um 20:48 schrieb Will Robertson:
> 
> >Please tell us which fonts crash (mkluatexfontdb -vvv) so we can
> >fix/blacklist them!
> 
> mkluatexfontdb -vvv
> ...cal/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin/mkluatexfontdb:128: attempt
> to call upvalue 'log' (a nil value)
> 
> 
> As mentioned three weeks ago there is one font I could determine
> which is provoking crashes every time: URW:GaramondNo8-Ita:2001, a
> TrueType font from the urwfonts-1.41 archive (having it since many
> years). You can find it here:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/AFPL/GhostPCL/.

I confirm the crash with current texlive version (svn revision 3720),
however revision 3726 built from luatex svn (0.60.x branch) doesn't
crash. So, whatever this issue was I think it is now fixed.


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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