Am Sonntag, 1. November 2015 um 21:48:28, schrieb Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> > On 2015-11-01, Kornel Benko wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 1. November 2015 um 19:37:41, schrieb Guenter Milde > > <mi...@users.sf.net> > >> On 2015-10-30, Kornel Benko wrote: > > ... > > >> > Besides we have ATM about 200 failing export test cases. > > ... > > >> How many of these are for the obscure combination of Xetex and Tex fonts? > >> While there is a use case for LuaTeX and TeX fonts, I can't see a reason to > >> use Xetex instead of pdflatex with TeX fonts! > > > 316 tests are XeTex + system font, 52 (not inverted) of them fail, 42 > > inverted > > 316 tests are XeTex + tex font, 12 (not inverted) of them fail, 54 inverted > > >> Solving all issues that arise from this combination is diverting attention > >> and ressources from more important tasks. > > > Most of these tests were working some time ago. > > Many of them "by chance": not failing but with incorrect output (Missing > characters, wrong characters) or "fragile" (working, but would fail by > addition of one non-ASCII character, say).
Sure, but we have to check, ...
It is not done by simply declaring them to be inverted.
> > We already have many inverted test.
>
> This also adds to the impression, that this is an area where test
> failures are to be expected for many reasons. I.e. the signal to noise ratio
> is rather bad for XeTeX+TeX fonts and we would be better of without these
> tests.
>
> > I am strongly against such policy. First one has to check if the reason is
> > really
> > babel/polyglossia conflict.
>
> There are many more reasons, mhchem, babel language files, font problems, ...
Yes, and I am grateful too for what you have done in this direction.
> The combination XeTeX + TeX-fonts is not supported by many packages,
> including standard LaTeX packages like "inputenc"! OTOH, it is so obscure
> that it is really not worth wasting much time to work around all the
> problems. Rather treat/document it as: avoid if possible, use at your own
> risk.
My argument is not that they do not belong into the set of reverted, but I'd
like them
to be checked first.
They will be included with the appropriate comment.
> Günter
Kornel
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