I am using the font IM FELL English PRO () via the fontspec package, and when I tried typesetting the characters \"{a}, \'{n} or \"{o}, I got this error:  xdvipdfmx:fatal: Type2 Charstring Parser: Parsing charstring failed: (status=-1, stack=5) Output file removed.   Here is the MWE:  \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{IM FELL English PRO} \begin{document} \'{n} \end{document}   I am using XeTeX version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99991 and fontspec version 2.4a. Another user also got the same error using LuaTeX with this MWE.  Those characters do exist in this font. There are other characters that give this error (e.g. ), but not all accented characters have the problem; e.g. \"{u} is ok. The error also goes away if I change to another font, such as Arial. There is another  where the OP there got the same error with some fonts but not others. It was suggested there for various reasons that I should start a new question.   The font developer Igino Marini told me the font had been generated in FontLab Studio and had passed the Microsoft Font Validator, and no problems have been reported to him outside of LaTeX.  Many thanks for looking into this.
I am having an error compiling the following code with xelatex and lualatex:  ** WARNING ** "seac" character deprecated in Type 2 charstring. ** ERROR ** Type2 Charstring Parser: Parsing charstring failed: (status=-1, stack=5)  Output file removed.  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{xunicode} \usepackage{fontspec}  \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Ligatures={Common}, Numbers={OldStyle}]{IM FELL English PRO} \begin{document}  Buongiorno a tutti. Trallallà.  \end{document}   The error disappears when I omit the accented à. It also doesn't happen when I use other fonts.  Could you suggest any workaround?  Thank you, A
$ \tan 1^\circ \cdot \tan 2^\circ \cdot \tan 3^\circ \cdots \tan 89^\circ$ How can I find the following product using elementary trigonometry?     $$ \tan 1^\circ \cdot \tan 2^\circ \cdot \tan 3^\circ \cdots \tan 89^\circ.$$   I have tried using a substitution, but nothing has worked. Chaining the Imperius curse What would happen if a wizard w successfully casts the Imperius curse on a equally powerful wizard a and then order him to cast the same curse back on w?  Follow-up questions.  It is established that casting the curse can be done .  What would happen in the case of a chain of casts that would hit back the original wizard? w-&gt;a-&gt;b-&gt;c-&gt;w  The original wizard could rather command the last wizard c, in the chain, to curse his first target instead. w-&gt;a-&gt;b-&gt;c-&gt;a wich would create a loop of a-&gt;b-&gt;c-&gt;a...  In what kind of limbo would wizards a, b and c exist in?  ( for the sake of simplicity, we can assume that every curse target is not very good at resisting the curse ) Let $A$ be a commutative ring with $1$. Let $I$ and $J_k$, $k=1,\dots,n$ be ideals of $A$ with $I\subseteq \cup _{k=1}^n J_k$. Then I have obtained the following:  (1) If $J_k$, $k=1,\dots,n$, are prime ideals, then there exists some $j$ such that $I\subseteq J_j$.   (2) If $A$ is a principal ideal ring, then there exists some $j$ such that $I\subseteq J_j$.   I want some counterexamples that for all $k=1,\dots,n$, $I$ is not contained in $J_k$. How to get the counterexamples? How can I tell hotels exist that aren't on the booking web sites? There are a ton of sites out there to help book hotel rooms and to aggregate all the different sites to book hotel rooms. These companies make enough money to buy ads on TV, so I won't name them here. I normally poke around 3 or 4 of these as part of planning any trip.  I am now starting some very long term planning for a 6 week South Pacific trip, which includes undertstanding what hotels costs on some very small islands. I have paper guidebooks and I've been looking online. But I come across anomalies. For example, a place which has only 9 hotels listed on the sites I use, and prices range from $1000/night down to $200/night, then when I read the reviews on that cheapest one people are saying "it's nothing special, there are 5 or 6 places just like it here for half the price". Well, not on this site there aren't!  My guess is that many of these places don't have web sites, or don't have online booking, and therefore aren't getting into the aggregators. For some islands I have found local tourism boards with lists of "pensions" and such, typically cheaper than what I can find on the aggregators.    But how can I know? I don't want to assume that popular web sites represent reality, and choose only from places listed there. But I don't want to invest 10-20 hours of research per island only to discover the aggregators had everything. How can I know where the coverage is good and where it isn't, what kinds of hotels are more or less likely to be listed at expedia, trivago, booking, hotels, tripadvisor, and the like? (For example, I don't want to stay at a hostel, so I don't mind if they're not included in online sites.) Are there sites like wikitravel that list places without much of an internet presence?  I'm starting my research over a year before the trip, but wading through hotel pages is not the fun part of the planning so tell me how the smart people do it. I'm loading elements via AJAX. Some of them are only visible if you scroll down the page. Is there any way I can know if an element is now in the visible part of the page? What does "Package  has no installation candidate" mean? How could I detect (preferably with Python) duplicate MP3 files that can be encoded with different bitrates (but they are the same song) and ID3 tags that can be incorrect?  I know I can do an  checksum of the files content but that won't work for different bitrates. And I don't know if ID3 tags have influence in generating the MD5 checksum. Should I re-encode MP3 files that have a different bitrate and then I can do the checksum? What do you recommend? is it possible to trigger an email using microsoft flow when a date in a field of a sharepoint list item is nearby, I want to build a flow to trigger an email when a date in one of the fields is nearing. I have a field named Payment due date. is it possible to trigger an email 2 days prior to the Payment due date. So that I don't miss the payment due date and payment is not delayed. Any kind of assistance is appreciated. Thank you very much in advance! I wish to familiarize myself with the capabilities of QGIS up to and beyond QGIS version 3.0.   Can you recommend some good web resources and tutorials that would show me QGIS' capabilities?   I am interested in both using QGIS through its GUI and in developing applications using QGIS. Cannot change backlight brightness Ubuntu 14.04 This morning I found that I cannot change the brightness of my Dell XPs 13 laptop's display anymore. I tried the following to change the brightness   Use keyboard brightness keys Run the commands shown below Boot with kernel option acpi_backlight=vendor. This resulted in a dell_something folder being present in the /sys/class/backlight folder. Changing the brightness file in that folder does not help. Add 'intel_backlight' to xorg.conf Set "load legacy option ROM" BIOS option to enabled and "secure boot" to disabled Boot with kernel option i915.disable-pch_pwm=0 Boot from a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 USB stick installation. I can still not control the brightness. This is strange as the laptop came preinstalled with 12.04. Maybe this a hardware problem? Install latest intel video driver   Any ideas why this broke suddendly? I've upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 in April and till yesterday the brightness keys were working fine.  Thanks!  echo 100 &gt; /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness echo 100 &gt; /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness Tabular with p type columns to fill page width Irreducible polynomials and affine variety Let $k$ be any field, and let $f,g\in k[x,y]$ be two irreducible polynomials such that $g$ is not divisible by $f$. Prove that $V(f,g)\subseteq A_k^2$ is finite. Submodule of free module over a p.i.d. is free even when the module is not finitely generated? The question  got me curious and thinking about the following:   For which $n$ and $k$ are there nontrivial homomorphisms from the symmetric group $S_n$ to the cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}/k\mathbb{Z}$ of order $k$? I'm thinking it might be an open problem. Is this a problem with a known solution? If so, how can we prove it?   Thanks! Stack Overflow has successfully borrowed at least one XBox feature (Achievements).  I'd like to see another feature borrowed as well. Let's say I'm playing Halo online and another player is being a bigot.  I have the option to add him to a list of ignored users.  After doing that, all the racist things he says will never be heard through my headphones anymore. Now, on Stack Overflow, I'd like the ability to add a user to a list of ignored users.  This would hide all of that user's comments, and maybe his questions and answers as well (not sure if hiding questions/answers is necessary). This serves multiple purposes:  It would make it easy for users to avoid other users' flamebait. It would give users a more appropriate response to flamebait. The ability to start flame wars would be reduced, since fewer users would see those comments. Users would now have an incentive to be more diplomatic, as there is now a negative consequence to the behavior (the silent treatment). Administrators could review which users are the most often ignored, which would be a strong indication that someone should be  or even locked out of their account. Administrators wouldn't have to spend as much time dealing with complaints about abusive users, since users would have a better way to respond.    makes a good point in a comment to an answer, that I thought should get more visibility:  I had a problem, reported it and got the response &quot;not bad enough to do anything about, sorry&quot;. Which is kind of true, because the only options available to the mods are the nuclear one (penalty box) and the zero-effect one (do nothing). We need a middle ground option where abuse can be handled for you without also being handled for everyone. How do I contact other users? How can I contact another user, if that user has not specified any contact details in their profile? Short brandable domain vs. long keyword domain I downloaded a file from the internet (I can link to it here, but in the interests of not annoying other users, I won't post the link), and I can't delete the file with the message:   You need permission to perform this action  You require permission from the computer's administrator to make changes to this file   Trouble is, I am the administrator and UAC is completely off.  If I go into the Properties/Security tab, I get the message   You do not have permission to view or edit this object's permission settings   Clicking "Advanced"/Owner, it says:   Current owner: Unable to display current owner.   If i try to change the owner, I get the same message:   Unable to set new owner on file  Access is denied. Determinant of a special $n\times n$ matrix GOTO still considered harmful?