On 3/26/2020 10:49 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
something "no expansion applied to virtual font 'foo'" or so ... just to prevent some question about a possible bug coming up 5 years from now
My understanding is that there was nothing wrong with what Robert is doing (though it is unusual). Therefore I see no reason for a message. The prior behavior was just a bug. pdftex should simply behave correctly. What am I missing?
i'm just puzzled by the fact that it could occur in the first place: a font needs to be configured (expansion parameters), somehow looks for some instance (file or so) being present and when not crashed the engine; sure, the null check fixes is, but it might kind of obscures the real issue as that branch was entered (the -20-100 kind of looks suspicious), but let's now waste time on it because maybe i just don't understand it well enough
As for posterity, there are ChangeLog entries, VC logs, this mail thread, notes in the code ... -k sure (it's just my experience that not that many users look at those so questions pop up again, which is why i often just add messages for the sake of that; ok no one ran into this issue so far, so we can ignore it here, an d most folks won't notice an issue with hz anyway because on a display it's sub pixel)
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