[XeTeX] Fontspec v2.4 (25/05/2014) misbehaving?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 24, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Elliott Roper <elliott at yrl.co.uk> wrote:

> A freshly installed TeXLive 2014 produces OK output from its version of fontspec’s fontspec-example.tex, but after updating with TeXLive utility the new one fails with
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> ERROR: Undefined control sequence.
> 
> --- TeX said ---
> \__fontspec_calc_scale:n ..._tmpb_dim }\fp_div:Nn 
>                                                  \l__fontspec_tmpa_fp {\l__...
> l.8 ...sfont{TeX Gyre Heros}[Scale=MatchLowercase]
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> That is followed by
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> ERROR: LaTeX error: "kernel/misused-fp"
> 
> --- TeX said ---
> ! 
> ! A floating point with value '4.490005493164062' was misused.
> ! 
> ! See the LaTeX3 documentation for further information.
> ! 
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> 
> It looks as though it has forgotten how to do floating divides.
> 
> Removing the options e.g. [Scale=MatchLowercase] allows it to compile a pdf but of course with ugly sizes.
> 
> Reinstalling a fresh 2014 over the top of it returns it to sanity but with options preceding the font name as in 2013.
> 
> This in on a Mac with 10.9.3
> 
> Elliott Roper

Howdy,

There should be an update to fontspec 2.4a coming though soon. I know it has been sent to CTAN so should show up in TeX Live using TeX Live Utility (or tlmgr).

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)