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26 Mar
2020
26 Mar
'20
3:49 p.m.
something "no expansion applied to virtual font 'foo'" or so ... just to prevent some question about a possible bug coming up 5 years from now My understanding is that there was nothing wrong with what Robert is doing (though it is unusual). Therefore I see no reason for a message. The prior behavior was just a bug. pdftex should simply behave correctly. What am I missing? As for posterity, there are ChangeLog entries, VC logs, this mail thread, notes in the code ... -k