Large amount of warnings when setting font #819
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Thanks for your report! Looking at the origins of the "Requested font" message, it seems that something in your document must be turning on the |
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Ah, yes, So the I see this kind of behavior pretty often — normally (La)TeX is so verbose that people's packages end up printing out all kinds of chatter and debugging information by default, because what's a little bit more output? With Tectonic's default approach to keep things quiet, individual warnings start becoming noticeable, and that includes the spurious ones that were simply downed out before. |
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Thank you for your reply. I really like Tectonic's approach because it helps me learn Latex by surfacing actual issues, but in this case it's just that the package is very verbose. Is there a standard/recommended way for a package to check if debugging should be enabled? |
Not that I'm aware of, no. It might make sense to add one, although it would probably take a while for it to get uptake. I'm going to close this issue because I don't think that there is anything really actionable on the Tectonic side for this. Thanks for reporting! And feel free to comment and/or file another issue if there is more to discuss. |
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I'm the maintainer of the roboto package. If I compile the user's file with xelatex, no warnings are generated. So, I believe tectonic is responsible for outputting the warnings. |
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Just to clarify: xelatex is generating the Requested font messages but these normally go to the log file, not the normal output. So it must be that tectonic has chosen not to elide those messages. Every font package I maintain has \ifxetex\XeTeXtracingfonts=1\fi and nobody has ever complained about it; some users may depend on it. |
I am trying to compile the following file:
I use
tectonic foo.texto compile this file.I expect the file to compile without warnings: Tectonic should download the package and use it to set the default font for the document.
What happens: the PDF is properly generated (with the Roboto font) but I get a very large amount of warnings:
Such a large amount of warnings does not help me. I looked for why these warnings happen on the internet but I couldn't find the reason (note: I am only a novice Latex user). The PDF looks properly generated so I don't understand the implication of these warnings. The main issue I have is that these warnings obscure other warnings that may happen while working on my document and hinder legibility.
I am not sure if these spurious warnings are a Tectonic issue, caused by the
robotopackage itself, or my own configuration. I reported it here because I couldn't find any mention of these warnings anywhere else.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: