Control: tags -1 + wontfix On 01.05.25 Norbert Preining (norbert@preining.info) wrote: Hello Norbert, as far as I understand the discussion in tex-k, there will nothing change except (maybe) updating the manual page. Looking at the TL svn repo ttfdump 0.5.6 was released, but nothing changed except some copyright statements. I tag that bug wontfix for now. Let me know, if my impression is wrong. Hilmar > bug report in Debian, but that might be a good idea to warn if excessive > arguments are given, or the dump output (second file argument) is > already present. > > Also, the man page does not list that > ttfdump -o OUTPUT TTF > is the same as > ttfdump TTF OUTPUT > > It is a bit confusing I admit. > > Best regards > > Norbert > > ----- Forwarded message from Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> ----- > > I had four TrueType font files, and I wanted to dump all four of them > > and grep out some information about their metrics, so I did this, on the > > reasonable assumption that trying to dump more than one font file at a > > time would either concatenate the dumps of all of them, or complain > > about bad command-line syntax, and in the latter case I could do it > > again the long way round: > > > > $ ttfdump *.ttf | grep stuff > > > > This produced no output and no error message, and turned out to have > > overwritten the second of my four font files with the full textual dump > > of the first. Apparently, if ttfdump receives more than one positional > > argument, the second one is treated as an output file, and as far as I > > can see the third and fourth are completely ignored. > [...] > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info > arXiv / Cornell University + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live > GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 >
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