Just one more thing.

After saving the book, then reloading, the bug does not show anymore.
Exploring the book, i find A-macron and a-macron characters are now:

16r3FC00100 and 16r3FC00101 instead of 16r100 (256) and 16r101 (257)

So I guess this is a work around for what was a known bug.
Or is it a coincidence?

nicolas

nicolas cellier a écrit :
> Thank you, so obvious.
> 
> So i went to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157
> downloaded freetype 2.3.4
> uncompress/untar
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> su
> make install
> 
> et voila, Sophie now runs fine
> 
> Well, my french keyboard is not really configured as french.
> a-grave, e-grave, e-acute, currency, paragraph, c-cedilla don't render 
> as expected.
> 
> Concerning a-macron, i do not know how to type it in.
> So i type some 'azertyuiop', explore the book, hack a little
> string
>     at: 3 put: (Character value: 256);
>     at: 7 put (Character value: 257).
> close the book, reopen and hourah, got the EndOfRun bug: (Character 
> value: 256) does not render (even not a square box) and (Character 
> value: 257) render as a carriage return...
> 
> azrty
> uiop
> 
> Well, using URI gothic font I can see the A-macron superimposed to other 
> r and t characters, and a-macron before the (false) carriage return.
> 
> So I confirm the bug is in. A minor one. But a bug.
> 
> John M McIntosh a écrit :
>> Ok, well we did get that
>>
>> http://bugs.impara.de/sophie/view.php?id=6608
>>
>> The problem of course is that FT_Outline_Embolden which is a FreeType  
>> entry point isn't there, I guess because you said your Linux box is old.
>> Then it's all downhill since the Sophie visual layer really assumes it 
>> can render font bits to the screen.
>>
>>
>> On May 3, 2007, at 2:10 PM, nicolas cellier wrote:
>>
>>> FT_Outline_Embolden
>>
>> -- 
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>> John M. McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
>> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd.  http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
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