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From: ivo welch 
Subject: luatex
Date: 3 July 2022 at 21:46:46 CEST

hi taco---

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/649666/lulatex-macos-font-mystery-fontbook-montserrat

I just ran into some lualatex problems with a font from macos Fontbook.

suggestion: may I suggest improving the error messages with respect to
fonts?  if a font is not found, print out *where* luatex was looking
for the font ("montserrat not found in /usr/...; /opt/...").  [maybe
also add the most similarly named font if one exists.]  ulrike also
suggested that maybe the font was damaged, although it worked well
with other apps.  in any case, if this could be the reason, perhaps
add a different kind of error message than "font not found."

regards,

/iaw

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