[NTG-context] Emoji color fonts not working on LMTX/Context MKIV

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/20/2020 10:18 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 5/20/20 9:39 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> LMTX (2020.05.18 16:50) displays only black and white icons.
>>>
>>> I think this might be a bug in LMTX.
>>>
>>> Could you confirm the issue?
>> what if you wipe the cache
> 
> Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
> 
> icons are black and white, no color after wiping the cache.
> 
> Made no difference with a brand-new install either.
> 
> Just accidentally, I discovered this is an issue in Evince.
> 
> LMTX should handle color in LMTX with other PDF code than in MkIV.

won't happen ... actually, at some point mkiv will use a similar method 
as lmtx

> MuPDF displays colorful. So do acroread for Linux, xpdf, SumatraPDF and
> even Okular.
> 
> Sorry for the noise, since Evince seems to be the culprit.
for me acrobat and mupdf based viewers (sumatra also uses it, actually a 
rather old version) are the reference .. it makes no sense to cripple 
context because of an issue with a viewer

Hans

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