[luatex] detailed 'diagnostic' of MikTeX/Lua*/fontspec issues

[Evan Cooch]

On 7/2/2013 11:06 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> ···<date: 2013-07-02, Tuesday>···<from: Evan Cooch>···
>
>> On 6/30/2013 6:17 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>>> ···<date: 2013-06-29, Saturday>···<from: Evan Cooch>···
>>>
>>>>>>> Not a luaotfload thing, as I wrote previously, this could be a
>>>>>>> buggy font. Does it terminate correctly if you run:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      luaotfload-tool --update --force --verbose=5 --dry-run
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>> No -- with or without the --dry-run flag, it terminates. The
>>>>>> termination always occurs after it has started scanning my working
>>>>>> directory (which happens to be the Desktop for my account, which
>>>>>> again is an admin account).
>>>>> Please try the attached patch for luaotfload.
>>>>>
>>>> OK - if you tell me what to do with the patch. If this was a Linux
>>>> machine, I know how to apply patches. This is a Windows machine - do
>>>> I need to run something, or simply copy and paste from the patch
>>>> into something else?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>> Sorry, I didn't consider that. Here's the patched file:
>>>
>>>      https://gist.github.com/phi-gamma/5894615
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Philipp
>>>
>>
>> Tried the patch -- doesn't seem to ork. When I run luaotfload-tool
>> --update --force, I now get an error about database not found, and a
>> bunch of other error messages:
>>
>>
>> ... (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\scripts\luaotfload\luaotfload-tool.lua:135: module 'luaotfload-database' not found:
>> 	no field package.preload['luaotfload-database']
>> 	[luatexbase.loader] Loading error:
>> 	...MiKTeX 2.9/tex/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload-database.lua:2: unexpected symbol near '<'
>> 	[kpse C searcher] file not found: 'luaotfload-database'
>>
> As the message says, something on line 2 of your
> luaotfload-database.lua makes the parser choke. Since “>” isn’t
> supposed to be anywhere near that line I suspect that your file
> is corrupt.
>
> Best,
> Philipp
>
>

Thanks -- I'll try again (although not sure how a copy/paste of an ASCII 
text file could be corrupt). Nonetheless....