Am 04.02.2026 um 15:29 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
On 2/4/26 05:27, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 03.02.2026 um 19:50 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
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Could anyone confirm the issue? I really don’t know what I may be missing.
1. You don't mention what error you get.
Many thanks for your reply, Wolfgang.
Of course, this was my fault. I may experience issues on Windows (at
work), but I can only report them on Linux (at home).
I didn’t copy the minimal sample I had on Windows, but I realized what
was wrong with it:
\definefontfamily[mainface][tt][TeX Gyre Cursor][rscale=.25]
The missing zero is mandatory in this case (and it didn’t go in the
sample I created at home).
Since ommiting the zero is allowed in other (at least for dimensions), I
wonder whether it would make sense to allow the missing zero in rscale.
You don't need the leading zero when a decimal value is used as factor
for a dimsneion, e.g. .2\texwidth.
In this case it does matter because the rscale value is passed to the
font loader as number with the \number command. When you pass a number
to \number, the command expects a integer value and decimal values (e.g.
0.25) aren't the correct argument but when you add a leading zero you're
lucky, because you 0 as value and the decimal value is just kept as
additional content.
\starttext
\number\plusone % works
\number 0.25 % works because \number sees 0
\number .25 % fails because \number sees .
\starttext
A way to fix this is a complexer value checker which uses \ifchknumber
to check if the argument start with a number, otherwise no
interpretation happens.
\def\CheckedNumber#1%
{\ifchknumber#1\or
\tointeger\lastchknumber
\else
#1%
\fi}
\CheckedNumber\plusone
\CheckedNumber{0.25}
\CheckedNumber{.25}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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