Percentage width doesn't work with recent texlive

[Philip Taylor]

I have no idea what a "Lyx" document is, but nor can I see any mention of "percentage" in your problem description whilst the subject line reads "Re: Percentage width doesn't work with recent texlive" — can you clarify both aspects, please ?

/Philip Taylor//
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N. Andrew Walsh wrote:

> OK, so I've spent all day trying to whittle down a document to an MWE. The problem turns out to be rather messy, so I'll see if I can describe it verbally, and then we can discuss whether it makes sense to send a not-very-minimal example.
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> So here's what's happening. I have a document with figure-wrap floats, several foreign languages, some musical characters, and footnotes. I'm using polyglossia for languages. Here's the breakage condition:
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> a figure wrap float, in the caption of which is a word in Greek, due to formatting runs off the page. On the *next* page is a footnote containing the musical characters (flats and sharps), in English. For whatever reason, it's throwing an error that these glyphs are missing in the *Greek* font. Sometimes it allows me to show the output anyway, and those glyphs -- even though they're in text coded as US-English, using a font for which they are present, they nevertheless show up as blanks in the footnote, but are displayed in the main text.
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> If you prefer, I can attach that one page as pdf. But since the MWE involves a specifically long figure, a long length of text, and enough different language settings to get several languages into the document, it's not going to be terribly small.
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> Another option to try to get around this would be to use a Greek font that has the codepoints for musical characters available. Is there one?
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> Sorry this is so messy. My documents always end up being a bit … avant-garde.

> PS- update. I've managed to get a use-case that works with a small document, attached here.
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> The breakage is now as following: if a figure caption has a foreign language in it, footnotes on the same page are rendered in the same font as that foreign-language word, and missing glyphs throw an error.
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> I hope that's minimal enough. I'm not sure If that's related to the weird percentage-width error I was seeing before, but I *did* see that error on one compilation run.
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> You can insert a picture of your choosing into the float. It doesn't seem to matter.
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> Cheers,
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> A

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