last build of tl18 tonight

Robert w.m.l at gmx.net
Fri Mar 1 00:57:29 CET 2019


FYI, I just sent a fix to CTAN,

best,
Robert

On 28.02.19 18:33, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:46:47 +0900 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> 
> 
>> Sorry, this is a pain indeed, and I agree that the luaotfload update
>> should have been better timed or better tested, but that is life.
> 
> It was tested and we knew that microtype will errors. But the
> previous luaotfload version contained a severe bug (letterspacing
> was completly broken) and we didn't want to leave this in the frozen
> texlive.
> 
> While the microtype error is a nuisance, the work-around is at least
> easy: load luatexbase.
> 
>> I don't think we can easily update tlnet to fix this chaos. And anyway,
>> there is no microtype update available ...
> 
> I wrote the author, but didn't get an answer yet.
> 
> 
>> @Karl The only option if at all possible is to *manually* create a new
>> microtype .tar.xz, and update the tlpdb with a revision+1 for microtype,
>> and do the signing etc manually. *IF* we want to do this, let me know.
> 
> Well if you want to do an emergency update, I would suggest to
> comment this line in microtype.lua:
> 
> 
>      microtype.warning("overwriting function `keepligature'")
> 
> should get:
> 
>      -- microtype.warning("overwriting function `keepligature'")
> 




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