weird issues on OS X about sile HOT 5 CLOSED

Screen shot of the botched showoff output

Output of tests/arabic.sil looks similar.

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I haven't found the tests/attack.pl in the 0.9.1 tar file; I'll try to continue with the current repo version soonish, but have to run now.

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Hi Jurgen, I think most of these are actually not problems. There've been a few fixes to missing font errors in the repo---you'll now get "Could not find requested font XYZ" instead of "Invalid font (-1)".

The "no patterns for language ja" is not an error, because you can't hyphenate Japanese. This warning has been suppressed in the repo.

Arabic won't work if you don't have the requested Arabic font (in the examples, Scheherazade) installed.

The KJV example has a bug where the examples were not updated after change in the way font sizes are specified. (previously, points were assumed as the unit of measurement; now a unit is explicitly required) That's also fixed in the repo.

Actually lots of things are fixed in the repo, and we really should prepare for a release very soon...

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Hi Simon, thanks for the clarifications – I know 0.9.1 is a 0.x release, so the full perfection of a 1.0 release must not be expected :–), but I was still afraid I had a bad build. Thanks again!

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It's now easier than ever to to play with the repo version on OSX if you are still interested

brew install sile --HEAD

That will get you the latest version out of git with all the dependencies. That's the easiest way to get started and have all the parts (note, use Homebrew command reinstall to upgrade head packages). But that doesn't get you the actual repository or the ability to play with the stuff in it such as regression tests. This will:

git clone [email protected]:simoncozens/sile.git
cd sile
./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make

Since your system already has the necessary dependencies having installed from Homebrew above, this should be a shoe in. Now your system default sile executable is the one installed from Homebrew but you can also run the one you compiled in you repo using ./sile. You can hack on the lua code in your repo and run it without needed to do the above compile step. With that in mind, the tests should work:

perl tests/attack.pl --regression

…since the test script uses ./sile internally to test the local repo instead of any system installed version of SILE.

Note: as soon as #122 gets merged the test system should run a lot smoother and ./tests/attack.pl --regression will only run the regression tests and will need to be run without the flag as just ./tests/attack.pl to check compiling of the examples.

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