On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:52:37 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
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> Meanwhile, it occurred to me that it would be good to let the Fedora
> folks know that this breaks, so I've filed a bug there; we'll see if
> they have any thoughts on the matter as well.
Actually, I opened:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271559
"google-noto-sans-cjk-vf-fonts is not compatible with XeTeX"
the other day as a bug in google-noto-sans-cjk-vf-fonts.
In response, Peng Wu (one of font package maintainers) opened:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272153
"xelatex doesn't support font face from named instance of variable fonts"
as a bug in texlive-base.
In #2271559, I was asked to help report this issue to upstream XeTeX,
which is in my to-do list.
It sounds like there should be a way for XeTeX to identify variable fonts
and ignore them.
Thanks, Akira
