[XeTeX] Embarrassing fontspec

[Pavel Stranak]

Hello,
I believe we have encountered the same limitation of XeTeX due to my 
silly specification of fonts for table collumns.
Will and Ross helped me back than, Ross pointing out that:
> Thus the \font command needs to be done again, every time, and you 
> exhaust
> the available \font registers.

See the thread "Defining fonts for table columns in XeLaTeX".

Regards,
Pavel


On 4.1.2006, at 15:24, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 4 Jan 2006, at 5:57 am, Will Robertson wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In trying to complete fontspec 1.9 before the new year properly 
>> begins, I've come across a very strange problem that has me totally 
>> stumped.
>
> OK, I can now confirm that it is NOT fontspec that is at fault; this 
> is a XeTeX bug. It will typically show up at some point when the total 
> number of fonts you've loaded during the job (whether or not you 
> actually used them all to print) gets significantly past 1000 or so. 
> Because fontspec does so much "speculative" loading of fonts, to 
> examine styles and features, you reach this figure in your job, though 
> you don't come anywhere near it if you just use \font to load the 
> styles you're actually going to print.
>
> I will release an update shortly with this bug fixed (along with a 
> couple of others). In the meantime, you should be able to work around 
> it by generating your figures in smaller groups, so that you don't 
> access quite as many fonts during a single run (and thus run out of 
> mojo). I realize that's inconvenient in a case like yours, Will; 
> sorry!
>
> Incidentally, I noticed while trying to track this down that fontspec 
> often seems to use \font with the exact same font specification two or 
> three times in succession. Is there scope for some optimization of the 
> behavior here? I didn't dig any deeper to try and figure out what it's 
> really doing, but from inside XeTeX, it looked like repeated identical 
> calls.
>
> JK
>
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