[metapost] Tfm generation broken

[Paul Pichaureau]

2013/9/20 Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com>

> On 09/19/2013 09:40 PM, Paul Pichaureau wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think the tfm generation is still broken in metapost 1.802 (I use the
>> last Miktex distribution on windows 8).
>>
>> For example, if you compile the following file "test.mf"
>>
>>
>> fontmaking:=1;
>>
>> designsize := 10;
>> fontdimen5: 5;                 % xheight
>>
>> end.
>>
>> This is the pl file obtained:
>>
>> (DESIGNSIZE R 10.0)
>> (COMMENT DESIGNSIZE IS IN POINTS)
>> (COMMENT OTHER SIZES ARE MULTIPLES OF DESIGNSIZE)
>> (CHECKSUM O 37700177400)
>> (FONTDIMEN
>>     (SLANT R 0.0)
>>     (SPACE R 0.0)
>>     (STRETCH R 0.0)
>>     (SHRINK R 0.0)
>>     (XHEIGHT R 0.03125)
>>     )
>>
>> As you can see, the xheight has a completly wrong value.
>>
>
> This bug was easy to fix:
>
> Index: ../../../source/texk/web2c/**mplibdir/mp.w
> ==============================**==============================**=======
> --- ../../../source/texk/web2c/**mplibdir/mp.w    (revision 1923)
> +++ ../../../source/texk/web2c/**mplibdir/mp.w    (working copy)
> @@ -32727,7 +32727,7 @@
>      mp_number arg1;
>      new_number (arg1);
>      number_clone (arg1, x);
> -    number_multiply_int (x, 16);
> +    number_multiply_int (arg1, 16);
>      make_scaled (x, arg1, internal_value (mp_design_size));
>      free_number (arg1);
>    }
>
>
>
> but I created a tracker item just in case:
>
>   http://tracker.luatex.org/**view.php?id=855<http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=855>
>

I'm sorry I didn't create a tracker for that! Next time I will.

Thanks !



>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
>


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