On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:34:40AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3-11-2010 3:46, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:29:39AM +0800, Li Yanrui (李延瑞) wrote:
> >>Hi Hans,
> >>
> >>It seems like the char-def.lua code is not merged into
> >>luatex-fonts-merged.lua. It causes:
> >>
> >>! LuaTeX error ...-context/tex/generic/context/luatex-fonts-merged.lua:5690:
> >>attempt to index global 'characters' (a nil value)
> >
> >Also (after deleting that line since "chardata" is not actually used
> >anywhere), node mode does not seem to work:
> >
> >\input{luatex-fonts}
> >
> >\font\testa={file:xits-regular:mode=node;+liga} at 45pt
> >\font\testb={file:xits-regular:mode=base;+liga} at 45pt
> >\testa fi fl ffi ffl\par
> >\testb fi fl ffi ffl\par
> >\bye
>
> I uploaded a version without the chardata reference
>
> Anyhow, I do see ligatures here so I wonder what goes wrong at your end.
I updated minimals but still I get ligatures only with base mode, I even
built the luatex-plain format and used luatex binary from minimals. If I
process the file with context, I get ligatures in both cases.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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