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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-fo...

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

-- Ivo Welch (ivo.welch@ucla.edu) http://www.ivo-welch.info/ J. Fred Weston Distinguished Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson [please acknowledge receipt if this is the first email in a conversation]

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