Hi all,
I had encountered a crash of mkluatexfontdb on indexing a certain font
und could solve the problem with the help of the "luatex" mailinglist.
Since some more details might be of interest especially to the
developers I sent a detailed bug report to this mailinglist.
I am using mkluatexfontdb version 1.07, database version 2.009 in an
up-to-date MiKTeX 2.9 installation under Windows Vista. Attempting to
create the database resulted in an app crash.
Using the -v option I discovered that this was caused by a font named
"orlando.ttf". I cannot provide you with the font itself, because I do
not know, whether it is free or not. Its version timestamp is
"1994-09-27 15:35:31". Perhaps this helps you to obtain it from somewhere.
When trying to add the font to the blacklist, I discovered some typos
and unclarities in the luaotfload package documentation (2012/03/27
v1.26) in section 3.1:
- The first sentence of the second paragraph is somehow corrupted: "and
added the to be blacklisted files, one per line." should read something
like: "and add the problematic font files to the blacklist, one per line."
- "... create a file named otfl-blacklist.cnf ... Then put the file some
where kpse can find." is very cryptic for me as a luatex beginner,
because no explanation is given, what "kpse" means and where it
typically looks for the file. After a while, I discovered that there was
already a otfl-blacklist.cnf in the "tex/luatex/luaotfload" subdirectory
of my MiKTeX installation. Perhaps this should be mentioned here.
- I also discovered that I need to normalize the entries in the
otfl-blacklist.cnf file in order to function properly: The casing had
to be normalized to all lower-case and the slashes in the paths to
forward-slashes. The latter is perhaps not so uncommen, but I am not
sure whether the former is a bug or a feature. However, I think both
peculiarities should be mentioned in the documentation to make it easy
for beginners to set up their luatex system.
Happy coding!
Dieter Köhler
