[XeTeX] XeTeX error message

[Jonathan Kew]

OK, thanks for that explanation. If you have (or can recreate) a file 
that exhibits the problem, I'd be interested to see one, as it's still 
not obvious to me from looking at the code how the error would arise. 
If I could reproduce it, I might be able to make things more 
robust/tolerant.

Jonathan

On 26 Apr 2004, at 11:38 am, Stephen Moye wrote:

> My apologies for not getting back to you on this sooner, but it just
> occurred to me what might have been happening -- the details are hazy.
>
> I am inclined to agree that it is some sort of encoding issue. I am 
> moving
> from Textures. I was in the process of testing some of my old Textures 
> files
> by opening them directly in TeXShop -- the quotes didn't work, I 
> believe.
> Eventually I got myself into a real mess by switching back and forth 
> between
> encodings (using Save As...) to get things to work out. Finally, I 
> adopted
> the policy of copying the Textures document and pasting it into a new, 
> blank
> TeXShop document, whereupon the error messages went away.
>
> On 4/26/04 4:34 AM, "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>
>> Looking at the code, it doesn't seem like the type of line endings
>> should be a problem. So most likely I have a bug somewhere else to 
>> deal
>> with.
>>
>> Can you tell us a bit more about your iffy.tex file (or was that a
>> made-up name?) and/or others where you're seeing this error? How big 
>> is
>> the file; what encoding does it use; what line-end convention; 
>> anything
>> else that might seem relevant? Do you have a small sample file you
>> could send me that demonstrates the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On 24 Apr 2004, at 7:43 pm, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
>>> My guess is that your iffy.tex file is a big file and has nothing 
>>> that
>>> is recognized as a line ending (i.e., 0x0A) .... could it be a
>>> Mac-style file with only CR (0x0D) ending the lines? If so, you need
>>> to convert the line-ends to Unix-style newlines.
>>>
>>> Or does "somewhat randomly" mean that you get the error 
>>> intermittently
>>> even with the exact same file? That would imply some other kind of
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> On 21 Apr 2004, at 10:43 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since installing v0.4, I am getting these error messages, seemingly
>>>> somewhat
>>>> randomly:
>>>>
>>>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.4 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>>>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>>>> entering extended mode
>>>> (./iffy.tex! Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=200000.
>>>> Please increase buf_size in texmf.cnf.
>>>>
>>>> Should I simply do as the message suggests, though the texmf.cnf
>>>> suggests
>>>> otherwise? I'm using OSX 10.3.3 on a TI PowerBook at present.
>>>>
>>>> And a question about fonts: Will OTF fonts become useable in XeTeX 
>>>> --
>>>> I'm
>>>> thinking about gems like Adobe Jenson and Slimbach's Brioso.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen Moye
>>>>
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