Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess it's time for the ConTeXt developers to start over that little
>>> discussion we had with the XeTeX developer(s) :-)
>>
>> hm, we use batchmode to catch an non found font so that we can look
>> further; i would not expect xetex to quit then
>
> You misunderstand, it is texexec that does the quitting.
>
> I've seen this before, but forgot about it. The problem is that
> whenever tex sees an error, it's return value changes from zero
> to non-zero. It has been like that since (at least) the emtex days,
> with higher return value numbers indicating ever more serious
> issues that were encountered.
>
> The immediate problem is that the non-zero return makes texexec
> think that xetex has failed completely. That is not true, nor is
> it xetex-specific.
>
> We should probably see if we (the tex developers) can reach an
> agreement about how to decide if a font exists without raising
> an error, but in the mean time it is maybe best to ignore return
> values from engines as long as the expected output file is
> there (or forget about the nice font trick).
tex.rb line 1933 :
ok = runtex(File.suffixed(if dummyfile ||
forcexml then rawbase else rawname end,jobsuffix))
if getvariable('engine') == "xetex" then
ok = true
end
so, xetex runs are always valid now (at least till we have a solution)
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