[tex-live] Bug#672742: (fwd) Bug#672742: /usr/bin/xetex: xetex fails to compile documents with defaultfontfeatures set

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Arthur,

Coming back to a thread of 2010 .. 2011 .. 2012 ...

On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Arthur, hi everyone,
> 
> coming back to a thread from 2010:
> > http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-October/027549.html
> > http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-October/027582.html
> 
> I think there is something we have to fix in one of the packages!
> 
> This problem was *not* present in TL2009.
> 
> Here another instance and analysis sent my a bug reported on Debian.



Unfortunately there seem to have been a problem ...

On So, 13 Mai 2012, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>   I see that, I'm going to look into it as soon as possible.  We still
> have until 24 May to update packages for 2011, right?

I know there are tlnet updates ... but are you or anyone working on
that?

> ----- Forwarded message from Kirill Smelkov <kirr at navytux.spb.ru> -----
> 
> > From: Kirill Smelkov <kirr at navytux.spb.ru>
> > Subject: Bug#672742: /usr/bin/xetex: xetex fails to compile documents with
> > 	defaultfontfeatures set
> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > X-Mailer: reportbug 6.3.1
> > Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 15:21:12 +0400
> > 
> > Package: texlive-binaries
> > Version: 2011.20120510-1
> > Severity: important
> > File: /usr/bin/xetex
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > After recent update of texlive, xetex fails to compile all my documents..
> > I've tracked the problem to the following minimal example:
> > 
> > ---- 8< ---- (xetex-bug.tex)
> > \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> > 
> > \usepackage{polyglossia}
> > \setdefaultlanguage{russian}
> > 
> > % NOTE: without defaultfontfeatures it works
> > \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
> > 
> > \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
> > %\setsansfont{Linux Biolinum O}
> > %\setmonofont[HyphenChar=None]{DejaVu Sans Mono}
> > 
> > 
> > \begin{document}
> > Привет Мир!
> > \end{document}
> > ---- 8< ----
> > 
> > on which xelatex fails this way:
> > 
> > 	$ xelatex xetex-bug.tex
> > 	This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/dev/Debian)
> > 	 restricted \write18 enabled.
> > 	entering extended mode
> > 	(./xetex-bug.tex
> > 	LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
> > 	Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, et
> > 	hiopic, farsi, arabic, pinyin, croatian, bulgarian, ukrainian, russian, slovak,
> > 	 czech, danish, dutch, usenglishmax, ukenglish, finnish, french, basque, ngerma
> > 	n, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, german, swissgerman, german-x-2011-07-01, monogreek, g
> > 	reek, ibycus, ancientgreek, hungarian, bengali, tamil, hindi, telugu, gujarati,
> > 	 sanskrit, malayalam, kannada, assamese, marathi, oriya, panjabi, italian, lati
> > 	n, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, nynorsk, bokmal, indonesian, e
> > 	speranto, lao, coptic, welsh, irish, interlingua, serbian, slovenian, serbianc,
> > 	 romansh, estonian, romanian, armenian, uppersorbian, turkish, afrikaans, icela
> > 	ndic, kurmanji, friulan, polish, portuguese, galician, catalan, spanish, swedis
> > 	h, loaded.
> > 	(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> > 	Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> > 	(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
> > 	(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/polyglossia.sty
> > 
> > 	...
> > 
> > 	(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg))))
> > 	(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/gloss-russian.ldf
> > 	(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/babelsh.def))
> > 	(./xetex-bug.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tipa/t3cmr.fd)
> > 	! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
> > 	\tl_if_empty_return:o ...o_str:n \exp_after:wN {#1
> > 	                                                  }\q_nil \prg_return_true: ...
> > 	l.16 \end{document}
> > 
> > 	No pages of output.
> > 	Transcript written on xetex-bug.log.
> > 
> > 
> > NOTE that with \defaultfontfeatures commented out it works.
> > 
> > I've searched the web a bit, and it seems the bug, at least a very
> > similiar one, was already reported upstream in 2010:
> > 
> > http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-October/027549.html
> > http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-October/027582.html
> > 
> > It used to work with TeXLive 2009 in testing.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks beforehand,
> > Kirill
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----


Norbert

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