[Dev-luatex] Some legacy fonts cause "invalid list tail, probably missing glue"

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:55 AM Marcel Fabian Krüger <tex at 2krueger.de>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:44:37PM +0100, luigi scarso wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:54 PM Marcel Fabian Krüger <tex at 2krueger.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A plain LuaTeX example for this would be
> > >
> > > \directlua{
> > >   callback.register('kerning', node.kerning)
> > >
> > >   font.current(font.define {
> > >     name = "dummy",
> > >     type = "virtual",
> > >     characters = {
> > >       {
> > >         width = 655360,
> > >         height = 655360,
> > >         depth = 655360,
> > >         commands = {},
> > >       },
> > >       right_boundary = {
> > >         width = 655360,
> > >         height = 655360,
> > >         depth = 655360,
> > >       },
> > >     },
> > >   })
> > > }
> > > \char1
> > > \bye
> > >
> > >
> > this fails with
> >
> > (see the transcript file for additional
> > information)</opt/luatex/mkvi-experimen
> > tal-53/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf>
> > ! error:  (file dummy) (type 3): font dummy at 72 not found
> >
> > --
> > luigi
>
> Right, I forgot that LuaTeX is not particularly happy about empty
> commandds tables. But after replacing
>
>   commands = {}
>
> by
>
>   commands = {{"right", 0}}
>
> and adding some f.fonts table the not found error disappears. But I am
> surprised that it even got that far for you: On my system (vanilla
> TeXLive 2019 on (Arch) Linux, both with the regular LuaTeX 1.10 and the
> current head of "experimental") the actual issue "invalid list tail,
> probably missing glue" appears long before LuaTeX reaches the font
> embedding stage.
>
>
not surprise, could be that I am testing a local version  not yet pushed.
For this reason is better to have a minimal and complete example, otherwise
we waste time .

With my local version
\directlua{
  callback.register('kerning', node.kerning)
  font.current(font.define{
    name = "dummy",
    type = "virtual",
    characters = {
      {
        width = 655360,
        height = 655360,
        depth = 655360,
        commands = {{"right", 0}},
      },
      right_boundary = {
        width = 655360,
        height = 655360,
        depth = 655360,
      },
    },
  })
}
\char1
\bye

$ luatex --fmt=luatex-plain test-tail.tex
doesn't complain .

-- 
luigi
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