Hi Hans, On Wed, 2026-03-25 at 10:18 +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 3/25/2026 5:40 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote: > > > otf reader | bad 'vmtx' table in file 'LXGWNeoXiHei.ttf' > > > > Even if it's the font itself that's buggy/broken, I'd argue that ConTeXt > > shouldn't enter an infinite loop when trying to load it. > > It took me a while to see that you actually don't use the tex live font > but a broken one from ctan
It is in TL, but it was updated only a few hours ago, so unless you've updated very recently and your local mirror is up-to-date, you might not have the broken version yet. On Wed, 2026-03-25 at 10:52 +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 3/25/2026 5:40 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote: > > > $ wget 'https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lxgw-fonts/LXGWNeoXiHei.ttf' > > are these fonts actually tested at all before being uploaded Yes, but only with XeLaTeX: https://github.com/myhsia/LXGW-CTAN/actions/runs/23419659711/job/68121899170 On Wed, 2026-03-25 at 12:17 +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > one gets what one asks for: a font with 40K scripts There's "only" 27k characters in the font, which is indeed rather large, but mostly unavoidable when 23k of them are Chinese glyphs (since removing letters from the alphabet probably isn't a realistic ask). > so wiping the font from ones disk is the best one can do In general, that's not really an option here (we can't delete random files from TL), but in this particular case, the file appears to be corrupted: https://github.com/myhsia/LXGW-CTAN/issues/5#issuecomment-4126020910 so I'll go ahead and revert the change in TL directly. Thanks, -- Max ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
