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i forgot this pdf version using DaystarEld's remix of ch1-4 had actually existed, since it is not linked directly to the rjl20/hpmor version by several steps away somehow, but glad to see it got a bit of updates as well.

i notice however the pre-built pdf releases say 5 years ago, but several other files mention revisions 2 years ago, so seems like it would be helpful to rebuild and release the v1.1 pdfs, if you would please, for easy access and sharing.

Hey, I was trying to rebuild these pdfs from the tex files (so I could add a couple of elements that nobody cares about).

i'm a complete noob to all things LaTeX but have been reading like crazy and thought I was going to be able to get this done. no such luck though, and now that I have chased down all the errors i was getting, I am stumped.

I installed MikTeX (windows 10), loaded up these files and before trying to edit anything i just tried to build the first book as is, using XeLaTeX as the compiler in texworks. I got a ton of errors about fonts, but I solved most of those by doing some reinstalls of Lumos, Garamond, etc. Finally got to a point where the console doesn't scream at me about those, at least not fatally.

but now that i've got past those, i've finally gotten this new error that has stumped me completely:

[2]) (hp-contents.tex [1] [2]
No file hpmor-1.toc.
[3]) [4] (chapters/hpmor-chapter-001.tex [1
dvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (4)

i checked the miktex xetex log file as it recommends, and all i could find among the chaos was this:

2021-08-11 13:34:24,756-0400 INFO miktex-xetex - executing input pipe: extractbb "--version"
2021-08-11 13:34:24,756-0400 INFO miktex-xetex.core - starting input pipe: extractbb "--version"
2021-08-11 13:34:24,756-0400 INFO miktex-xetex.core - start process: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c "extractbb "--version""
2021-08-11 13:34:26,615-0400 INFO miktex-xetex.core - start process: miktex-dvipdfmx.exe --miktex-enable-installer -q -E -o hpmor-1.pdf
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex.core - Invalid argument
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex.core - Function: fwrite
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex.core - Result: 22
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex.core - Data:
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex.core - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\TeXAndFriends\include\miktex/C4P/C4P.h:646
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex - Invalid argument
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex - Info:
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\TeXAndFriends\include\miktex/C4P/C4P.h
2021-08-11 13:34:27,414-0400 FATAL miktex-xetex - Line: 646
2021-08-11 13:34:27,416-0400 INFO miktex-xetex - this process (7176) finishes with exit code 1

I cannot for the life of me figure out what's happening here. the console error seems to suggest i have yet another font problem, but the log seems to be saying that there is an invalid argument in the miktex-dvipdfmx.exe line....

I could see there being a problem in dvipdfmx that is the result of a font problem or whatever, but "invalid argument" seems like a weird way to log it if so. but then again i know nothing of LaTeX issues or MikTex issues in particular. I've uninstalled/reinstalled/updated and all the usual dance and no dice.

I'm in the (very long) process of installing TexLive now to see if maybe this is a MikTex issue, but I thought I would reach out here to at least note the issue.

What have you used to build the pdfs? and are you able to build them now? Some of the other console errors seem to mostly say things like "we don't use this syntax anymore" and such, so i'm wondering if maybe I need to find some old versions of latex compilers to get it to work or something...