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MacOSX issue: obsolete content of file otfl-blacklist.cnf in /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luaotfload
I run MacTeX2012 on a MacBook under MacOS X 10.7.4. I recently discovered that I couldn't use the system font "Hoefler Text" under lualatex (but things were fine under xelatex) and reported the issue to tex.stackexchange.com (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/71098/5001). It turns out that the file otfl-blacklist.cnf, kept in /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luaotfload, still references lots of fonts with extension .ttc even though the problem that led to their blacklisting has long since been solved. Based on a suggestion by Khaled Hosny, I've come with the following "solution", which works at least for a current version of lua(la)tex: just comment out (deleting should work too, I suppose) all lines that refer to fonts in .ttc format from this file. This leaves the font LastResort.ttf as the sole blacklisted font (which doesn't seem to work properly...).
Sincerely, Mico
This is a duplicate of https://github.com/khaledhosny/luaotfload/issues/37 (the issue was already fixed last year). However, there is something fishy since the fixed file wasn't included in the last release.
Thanks, Philippe.
I posted the message earlier today on the suggestion of Khaled. The point I was trying to make is that even though the bug which gave rise to the decision to add the .ttc font files to the blacklist may have been fumigated a long time ago, the blacklist file itself does not (yet) seem not to reflect this development. :-(
Sincerely,
Mico
On 12 Sep, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
This is a duplicate of https://github.com/khaledhosny/luaotfload/issues/37 (the issue was already fixed last year). However, there is something fishy since the fixed file wasn't included in the last release.
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Just for clarification: The fix to the blacklist has already been committed a year ago, but the latest release (which is dated May 2012) didn't include that file for some reason. @mpg @wspr AFAIK you are maintaining this package now, could you please release an update that includes all files?
Er, we are? I'm not sure if that's wise… does anyone know any more about this package and how to update it than me? I'm drowning already :(
Khaled gave me access to the repo a couple of months ago, I can take care of that.
... which in no way means that I consider myself knowing more than you, though ;-)
Judging from the back-and-forth to the posting http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/71098/5001, dated Sept 2012, I was under the impression that the best solution was to eliminate all fonts listed in ../texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luaotfload/otfl-blacklist.cnf except for "LastResort.ttf".
Sincerely, Mico
On 2 Apr, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Will Robertson wrote:
Er, we are? I'm not sure if that's wise… does anyone know any more about this package and how to update it than me? I'm drowning already :(
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As I said, that has already been fixed upstream, but somebody has to release a version that contains the fix.