[luatex] Misplaced letter

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:18:52 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen:

>> When I added \textdir to the cell the content disappeared ;-).
>> (Perhaps it is outside the text margin or whatever).
> 
> how about
> 
> {\textdir ... }

That works (with/without the patch to nodes.simple_font_handler).

>> does it still panic if two object are written?

> i don't know .. i've never done that .. but i would not be surprised as 
> one can mess up in many ways (and adding all kind of checks for what are 
> programming errors at the lua end 

Well I didn't do it by purpose and it wasn't at the lua end

See

https://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2018-July/006841.html


> 
>> Did you find the source for Roberts problem with the "! error:
>> (vf): invalid DVI command"?
> i didn't look into something like that; is there a simple test i can do 
> without installing a ton of code? 

Robert's example was a simple plain tex example:

https://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2018-May/006818.html

As far as I can see \letterspacefont doesn't like virtual fonts
anymore.

 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/