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Hi all, while getting context/luatex to work, I experiment with fonts. I play with DejaVu fonts. I found that when I use DejaVuSerif.ttf I get what I want, but when I use DejaVuSans.ttf context produces nothing. It seems to process document without any error message and gives no pdf. I made some investigation and I guess it has something to do with file size of the font (DejaVuSerif.ttf-242KB, DejaVuSans.ttf-557KB). Result is the same for fonts from collection with similar size. Conversions with fontforge do not help. Is there any limit for size of font? Any other possible reason why? Thanks for suggestions. ZS
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Is there any limit for size of font? no. Can you write down your steps for installation, so I can reproduce the problem on my box? -- luigi
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:49:17 +0200
"luigi scarso"
Is there any limit for size of font? no. Can you write down your steps for installation, so I can reproduce the problem on my box?
1) mkdir /usr/local/context && cp justtex.zip linuxtex.zip /usr/local/context 2) cd /usr/local/context && unzip justtex.zip && unzip linuxtex.zip 3) add line to "setuptex" (TMP=~./context_tmp) 4) cd ./tex && sh setuptex 5) set PATH variable to have this on first place: /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin 6) mktexlsr&& luatools --generate && texmfstart texexec --make --all --luatex 7) export TEXMFCACHE='/tmp' && export TEXMFCNF='/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c' && export TEXMF='{/usr/local/context/tex/texmf,/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local,/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-linux,/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-fonts,/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-extra}' 8) copy latin modern fonts from lm.zip to /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/fonts/ 9) luatools --generate && luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en file "experiment.tex": % file start \starttext Hello world! Krásně–žluťoučký kůň. % utf8 test \stoptext % file end make pdf: texmfstart texexec --luatex experiment.tex ...works fine Let's play with fonts, file "experiment.tex": % file start \starttypescript [sans] [franklin] \definefontsynonym [DejaVuSanss] [name:djva] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [DejaVuSans-Bold] [name:djva] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [DejaVuSans-Oblique] [name:djva] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [DejaVuSans-BoldOblique] [name:djva] [features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [franklin] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [DejaVuSanss] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [DejaVuSans-Oblique] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [DejaVuSans-Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [DejaVuSans-BoldOblique] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansSlanted] [DejaVuSans-Oblique] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted] [DejaVuSans-BoldOblique] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [DejaVuSanss] [features=smallcaps] \stoptypescript \definetypeface[franklin][rm][serif][modern][default] \definetypeface[franklin][ss][sans][franklin][default] \definetypeface[franklin][tt][mono][modern] [default][rscale=1.12] \definetypeface[franklin][mm][math][iwona] [default][rscale=1.02] \setupbodyfont[franklin,ss,10pt] \starttext Hello world! Krásně–žluťoučký kůň. \stoptext % file end Before processing above source, copy font files from dejavu collection (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dejavu/dejavu-ttf-2.19.tar.bz2?download) cp DejaVuSerif.ttf /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/fonts/truetype/public/dejavu/djva.ttf mktexlsr && luatools --generate texmfstart texexec --luatex experiment.tex ... works fine This doesn't work: cp DejaVuSans.ttf /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/fonts/truetype/public/dejavu/djvb.ttf Change font name in experiment.tex from djva to djvb. mktexlsr && luatools --generate texmfstart texexec --luatex experiment.tex ... gives nothing - no error, no pdf
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zs wrote:
Hi all,
while getting context/luatex to work, I experiment with fonts.
I play with DejaVu fonts. I found that when I use DejaVuSerif.ttf I get what I want, but when I use DejaVuSans.ttf context produces nothing. It seems to process document without any error message and gives no pdf.
I made some investigation and I guess it has something to do with file size of the font (DejaVuSerif.ttf-242KB, DejaVuSans.ttf-557KB). Result is the same for fonts from collection with similar size. Conversions with fontforge do not help.
Is there any limit for size of font? Any other possible reason why?
% engine=luatex \def\testfont#1% {\blank \hbox \bgroup {\tttf#1:} {\tttf \font\test=#1*default \test effe fietsen 1234} {\tttf (sc) \font\test=#1*smallcaps \test effe fietsen 1234} {\tttf (os) \font\test=#1*oldstyle \test effe fietsen 1234} \egroup \blank} \starttext % \testfont{dejavusans} % \testfont{dejavusansboldoblique} % \testfont{dejavusanscondensed} % \testfont{dejavusanscondensedboldoblique} % \testfont{dejavusanscondensedoblique} % \testfont{dejavusansextralight} % \testfont{dejavusansmono} % \testfont{dejavusansmonobold} % \testfont{dejavusansmonoboldoblique} % \testfont{dejavusansmonooblique} % \testfont{dejavusansoblique} \testfont{dejavuserif} % \testfont{dejavuserifbolditalic} \testfont{dejavuserifcondensed} % \testfont{dejavuserifcondensedbolditalic} % \testfont{dejavuserifcondenseditalic} % \testfont{dejavuserifitalic} \stoptext only a few fonts seem to be okay, some crash luatex, some are not loaded Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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zs wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:08:51 +0200 Hans Hagen
wrote: only a few fonts seem to be okay, some crash luatex, some are not loaded
You mean some fonts are somewhat bad or luatex can't handle them?
luatex cannot load them (or even crashes) i.e. the fontforge 2 reader cannot read them; maybe the fonts are invalid Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:39:40 +0200
Hans Hagen
luatex cannot load them (or even crashes) i.e. the fontforge 2 reader cannot read them; maybe the fonts are invalid
Recent version of fontforge(20070723) can read DejaVuSans.ttf without any trouble. I also tried to tranform it to *.otf using fontforge - no problem. Older version(200703??) worked too. ZS
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zs wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:39:40 +0200 Hans Hagen
wrote: luatex cannot load them (or even crashes) i.e. the fontforge 2 reader cannot read them; maybe the fonts are invalid
Recent version of fontforge(20070723) can read DejaVuSans.ttf without any trouble. I also tried to tranform it to *.otf using fontforge - no problem. Older version(200703??) worked too.
then taco needs to look into it, maybe there's a problem with the loader Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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