On 4/24/15, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: >> Will Robertson wrote: >> >> On 24 Apr 2015, at 1:51 am, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> Even shorter: >> >> \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font>0\fi\bye >> > >> > :) >> > Phew! Glad to hear that (for once) it’s not fontspec that is broken! >> >> Well, I have now worked through my entire collection of.ttc fonts, and >> cannot find one that returns > 0 for \XeTeXcountvariations. Can anyone >> let me have a copy of such a font (installable under Windows, of course) >> so that I can experience at first hand the problem(s) that such fonts >> can cause ? > > Font variations is a feature of Apple’s AAT[1], and there is actually only > a single publicly available font which has them[2] AFAIK. Anyway, XeTeX > in TL 2015 dropped support for font variation entirely as xdvipdfmx does > not support them, so \XeTeXcountvariations always returns 0 now. > > Regards, > Khaled > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Typography > 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_(typeface)
I cannot say anything about fonts, but the code \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font>0\fi\bye gets the syntax of conditionals wrong, as the \fi ends the conditional before \bye, so \bye is run in all cases. The correct approach is \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font>0 \expandafter\bye\fi or something similar. Regards, Bruno -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
