On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:28:10PM +0200, Yves Scherrer wrote: > One more little thing: > > When I typeset a document with a glyph that is missing in the > selected font, the XeLaTeX logfile contains a nice warning: > > Missing character: There is no ✓ in font Gentium > Basic/ICU:script=latn;langua > ge=DFLT;! > > When I do the same with LuaLaTeX, I get the rather cryptic message: > > luaotfload | otf process: missing cache for lookup cs_l_0_s of type > gsub_contex > t in font 21 (Gentium Basic) > > It would be nice to phrase this message in a way that is > understandable for the common LaTeX user :)
The "Missing character:" warning is there, you didn't look hard enough :) (it is an engine error AFAIK so it is present in all TeX engines). The message you are citing is unrelated. > (In addition, I ask myself if this shouldn't be written to the > standard output, rather than just to the log file. After all, > missing characters change the content of the file and are thus > "worse" than mere layout problems like, say, overfull and underfull > boxes.) > > What do you think? That is something to be directed to LuaTeX team. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
