[NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> (I'm sorry for the delayed answer.)
> 
> On 9/15/07, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Andrea Valle wrote:
>>> ** WARNING ** Invalid CMap
>>> ** ERROR ** pdf_ref_obj(): passed invalid object.
>> i wonder what that object is .. and who generates the ref, could be a
>> special but you do nothing special in the example so i'm puzzled ... do
>> others have this problem?
> 
> Yes. I don't remember whether I already complained about it or not,
> but here's another (minimal) example to reproduce it:
> 
> \starttext
> \startformula
> a+b=\int_{i=0}^{\infty}\Gamma\,dx
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> 
> The main problem (besides being quite slow for the default LM) is that
> "font loading" in ConTeXt+XeTeX now does the following:
> 
> if ("FontName" is a valid font) then
>      use "FontName"
> else
>     use "[FontName]"
> end
> 
> And that one forgets the third possibility: about the old tfm fonts
> which should be loaded without any quotes, for example rm-lmr12
> 
> \font\a="rm-lmr12" works, but \font\a="rm-lmr12" at 12pt doesn't, and
> ConTeXt tries to use that one. Normally TeX would stop: generate and
> report the error at that point, but ConTeXt currently skips those
> errors on purpose and tries to use an unexisting font, so it results
> in a broken PDF.

i will send you a patch (yet another test for a spec -)

Hans

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