On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:55:01AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > luigi scarso wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote: > >>Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>>On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:10:47AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>>>Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > >>>>>Do you think it would be a good idea to store a checksum of the > >>>>>actual font file used while generating the cache? > >>>>This sounds useful. As it will need backend support in luatex, > >>>>I will add a tracker item for this. > > > >Isn't mtxrun --script fonts reload enough ? > > Only if you actually see the problem happening, which may > not be the case. The output could be messed up without any kind of > warning from the engine.
I'm not sure what the checksum field in tfm table is used for, but it can store the checksum of the actual font file (the lua end should fill it in lua loaded fonts) and the backend can warn the user in the case of checksum mismatch. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list dev-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
