Trouble generating Fantasque Sans Mono Italic on Archlinux

[ryuslash]

Hi,

I'm trying to build the latest changes of your excellent font on Archlinux and I'm running into some trouble. Running the PKGBUILD for ttf-fantasque-sans-git presents me with the following output:

mkdir -p OTF Webfonts
./validate-generate "FantasqueSansMono-Italic"
Generating FantasqueSansMono-Italic... 
Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 23:20 UTC 28-Sep-2015-ML-D.
 Based on source from git with hash: 
Error in FantasqueSansMono-Italic.
Font FantasqueSansMono-Italic.sfd is not valid
Makefile:17: recipe for target 'FantasqueSansMono-Italic.ttf' failed
make: *** [FantasqueSansMono-Italic.ttf] Error 42

After starting an interactive Python session with fontforge -lang=py -script and manually stepping through the python script in validate-generate, it seems that on my system font.validate() returns 524288, which is 80000 in hexadecimal. Looking at the fontforge documentation this is the only reference I could find to it:

0x80000

Points non-integral. TrueType points and control points must be integer aligned. (FontForge will round them if they aren’t)

If I call font.validate(True) instead, I also get the error 0x800000 (along with 0x80000), to which I found the reference:

0x800000

Overlapped hints. Either the glyph has no hint masks and there are overlapped hints, or a hint mask specifies two overlapping hints.

In case it helps, this is the output of fontforge -version:

Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 23:20 UTC 28-Sep-2015-ML-D.
 Based on source from git with hash: 
no xdefs_filename!
TESTING: getPixmapDir:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps
TESTING: getShareDir:/usr/share/fontforge
TESTING: GResourceProgramDir:/usr/bin
trying default theme:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
fontforge 23:20 UTC 28-Sep-2015
libfontforge 20150928

Do you have any idea how to fix this? I'd love to try out your latest changes.

Thanks for a great font.

Cheers,

Tom

[belluzj]

Sorry, I pushed changes to master without solving all errors from FontForge. Take the latest commit to build the font. You may see rendering issues.

[ryuslash]

Thanks, it works now. Should I report any rendering issues I run into?

[belluzj]

No, don't bother for now, I will try to push a version that compiles properly today.

[ryuslash]

Thanks!