[OS X TeX] [WARNING - NOT VIRUS SCANNED] TeX Live 2016 Pretest

[Richard Koch]

Simon,

Thanks for these reports!

But I have to tell you that sending them to ME won’t
do any good.

My attitude, and the attitude of the folks making TeX Live, is that no binary
should CRASH, ever. So we’ll stay on top of the original bug you reported.

However, TeX Live just retrieves style packages and the like from CTAN.
The many changes in LuaTeX, including abandoning some primitives
and introducing new ones, means that problems in style files are inevitable.

As we understand it, the LaTeX folks have been on top of errors for their
packages. To fix errors in other packages that are more LuaTeX explicit,
you need to write the authors of those packages directly. You might also
write the authors of LuaTeX.

Luckily, this is not such an urgent matter since style and class files
can be updated over the year by TLU. So our guess is that many problems
will remain even after the RELEASE of TeX Live 2016, but will gradually
be fixed over the year.

You have done an excellent job of rooting out problems.
Thanks a lot for that; we really appreciate it. Now please notify the
package authors!

Dick Koch


> On Apr 17, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Simon Spiegel <simon at simifilm.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 17.04.2016, at 16:47, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Simon,
>> 
>> You didn’t read my entire message announcing the MacTeX pretest, because
>> it warned about exactly this problem, and explained how to solve it.
>> 
>> From that message:
>> 
>> 5) There has been a dramatic restructuring of the LuaTeX code.
>> 	This will make it much easier to maintain in coming years, but
>> 	may cause some problems this year. In preliminary testing, LuaTeX
>> 	compiled most straight LaTeX files. But it crashed when
>> 	using Robertson’s fontspec, a crucial package when using system
>> 	fonts. This crash can be avoided by adding a file
>> 	~/Library/texmf/tex/luatex/luaotfload-blacklist.cnf containing
>> 	one line of text:
>> 
>> 	LastResort.ttf
>> 
>> 	The programmers know of this bug, so it should be fixed in the
>> 	release version of LuaTeX.
> 
> Thanks, that did the trick.
> 
> Still, there are a couple of problems with the latest version of lua(la)tex. I realize that most if not all of time are due to not yet updated packages, still, I thought it would be good to report them.
> 
> The following commands break the compilation:
> 
> \pdfminorversion
> \pdfcompresslevel
> \pdfobjcompresslevel
> 
> I guess this is a result of the recent luatex cleanup, but from a quick googling I could not find any reference for this.
> 
> Pgf has serious problems; for example, calling the package todonotes results in the following error:
> 
>> ! Package pgf Error: Driver file ``pgfsys-luatex.def'' not found..
>> 
>> See the pgf package documentation for explanation.
>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>> ...                                              
>> 
>> l.988 ...{Driver file ``\pgfsysdriver'' not found.}}
>> 
>> ? 
> 
> 
> Ulrike Fischer seems to have reported this problem already, see https://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/384/
> 
> There are also all kind of pgf-related warnings:
> 
>> Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-luatex.def does not support scop
>> ing. This warning is given only once on input line 190.
>> 
>> 
>> Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-luatex.def does not support sett
>> ing the line width. This warning is given only once on input line 190.
>> 
>> 
>> Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-luatex.def does not support path
>> constructions. This warning is given only once on input line 190.
>> 
>> 
>> Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-luatex.def does not support path
>> usage. This warning is given only once on input line 190.
>> 
>> 
>> Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-luatex.def does not support sett
>> ing the dashing pattern. This warning is given only once on input line 209.
>> 
>> 
>> Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-luatex.def does not support sett
>> ing the line cap. This warning is given only once on input line 209.
>> 
>> 
>> Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-luatex.def does not support tran
>> sformations. This warning is given only once on input line 237.
> 
> 
> 
> Microtype also does not work at the moment, I get the following error:
> 
>> Package microtype Warning: You don't seem to be using either pdftex, luatex, or 
>> xetex.
> 
> 
> Finally, I get the following message (which is not fatal) dozens of times:
> 
>> Non-PDF special ignored!
> 
> 
> Let me know, if you need more specific information on any of these issues.
> 
> Simon
> 
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