Re: Lilypond 2.5.8 crashes with any input

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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address@hidden writes:
> > The stacktrace (with the 0x0 markup variable) looks bogus to
> > me. Are you sure that Pango does work in other apps?
> 
> It works in etherape, although that obviously doesn't exercise nearly 
> as much functionality.
> 
> > What version of  Pango are you running?
> 
> 1.6, which is as high as I can go with the version of gtk I have.

I have 1.6 too

> Here's where the 0x0 comes from:
> 
> pango-font.cc:125
> 
> FcPatternGetString(fcpat, FC_FILE, 0, (FcChar8 **) &filename);
> char const *ps_name = FT_Get_Postscript_Name (ftface);
> ((Pango_font *) this)->register_font_file (filename, ps_name);
> 
> in line 126, FreeType (2.1.9) returns 0x0 for the ps_name. filename is 
> "/Library/Fonts/Verdana".

Hmmm.

Werner, do you have any ideas? I suspect that Verdana is a TTF font,
and is gets a 0x0 ps name on MacOS due to font handling of the
platform.  Any ideas? 
 
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