Open arrowtype opened 1 month ago
Looks like a quoting problem.
Oh, that would make sense. Just to clarify: are you guessing that the quoting problem is in my config file, or in GFtools?
No, it's in gftools, we're passing a command to another command, and probably mucking up the shell quoting when we do so.
Okay, makes sense. Thanks for the quick response, and for the further explanation!
@arrowtype could you test out #1007? If you have the repo on github, I can do it for you.
I’m not really sure what’s happening here, but I’ve run into the same issue intermittently, so I wanted to report it. It only happens occasionally, and tends to sort itself out with a re-run, so it’s nothing super serious. But, it is a little confusing, and could be a problem worth solving.
Basically, it seems like the GF Builder will occasionally create a file called simply
||
, then try to run it through the OTFautohint step. This doesn’t work, so it gives me the following error:This has happened for various different fonts, and it generally works itself out if I simply re-run the build. I’m not sure what causes it, but because it works out without any changes from me, I don’t think it’s an issue in my fonts or my config files. As a total guess, maybe it’s something like a race condition, or a random glitch of temporary file naming, or something similar and slightly unpredictable. I mostly just wanted to record it in case others run into this, or in case there’s an obvious solution.
I’m on
gftools 0.9.61
, and my current config file looks like this: