On 6 January 2014 23:30, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:24:11PM -0600, Chris Muller wrote:
>> I have been getting several "Object is not in the collection" errors
>> due to the recent removal of TextAttribute types.
>>
>> For example, try:
>>
>>    ReleaseBuilder openWelcomeWorkspaces
>>
>> I'd try to fix it myself but I wasn't involved in this change or know
>> what its really about.
>>
>> Help appreciated, thanks.
>
> It should be working now.
>
> I think that the situation was this:
>
> - TextFontReference was designed to work with StrikeFont fonts. It does not
> work with TTCFont fonts because it contains insufficient information to
> uniquely specify a font.
>
> - The height of a TTCFont is a float, and the height of a StrikeFont is
> an integer. In RunArray class>>scanFrom: this worked used to work accident
> because the fractional part of a font height was discarded.
>
> - When I changed RunArray class>>scanFrom: to read new TextAttribute
> instances from the stream, it no longer worked by accident.
>
> - Fixing TextFontReference to accept font height specifications like '20.0'
> in addition to '20' (allow the height to be either and integer or a float)
> allows the TextFontReference to be read correctly from a stream. This in
> turn allows the new version of RunArray class>>scanFrom: to work as expected.
>
> - TextFontReference remains broken for TTCFont fonts. This is a broader issue,
> and I do not know what to do about it.

The brokenness for TTCFonts - is that the reason behind RunArrayTest
>> #testScanFromTrailer's failure?

frank

> Dave