Re: [NTG-context] latest beta: trouble with font loading

Yanrui Li wrote:
> 2009/11/20 Wolfgang Schuster :
>> Am 20.11.2009 um 11:45 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:
>>
>>> Hi Hans, all,
>>>
>>> the two latest betas have trouble loading fonts from my own typescripts. All errors point to the same line in font-syn.lua. I don't have a minimal example yet, but here's a minimal command line that triggers the error on my box:
>>>
>>> mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern="*gentium*"
>>> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:706: bad argument #1 to 'next' (table expected, got nil)
>>>
>>> Any pointers?
>> 1. delete the luatex cache
>> 2. luatools --selfupdate
>>   mtxrun --selfupdate
>> 3. luatools --generate
>>
> 
> I did so and solved this problem. However I can not use Chinese OTF
> fonts such as 'AdobeSongStd-Light.otf', because luatex need very very
> large memory to load it in the stage of *enhancing* . This is a test
> file:
> 
> \definefont[song][name:adobesongstd]
> \starttext
> \song 测试
> \stoptext
> 
> The process of compiling stops here:
> 
> !load otf       : loading:
> /usr/share/fonts/adobe/AdobeSongStd-Light.otf (hash:
> adobesongstd-light)
> !load otf       : file size: 16229772
> !load otf       : enhancing ...

that's only the first time


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