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From: Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Using virtual  fonts defined with lua-code
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:41:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1s2e8pqmwqw3t.dlg@nililand.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D514F77.8010207@wxs.nl>

Am Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:13:11 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> On 8-2-2011 10:40, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The luatex documentation contains in section "7.2.2 Example virtual
>> font" an example how to define a virtual font "cmr10-red". The font
>> is defined by adding the code to the define_font callback.

>> Does some interface exists in contex/mkiv which allows to use such
>> virtual fonts together with the normal font loading code? E.g. could
>> I move the code for the font to some file ("cmr10-red.vflua") so
>> that a request \font\mytest="cmr10-red" will simply find this file
>> and use the code like vf, tfm or otf-files are found and used when
>> needed?
 
> It's relatively easy to add support for that. 

That would be fine. There are quite often on various lists questions
about how to "correct" a font, e.g. adjust kerning, or add a missing
glyph etc and a interface for "virtual lua fonts" would make such
corrections much easier.

The example in the documentation uses as base font cmr10 and loads
it with f = font.read_tfm('cmr10',size). How should one load the
real font when it is an otf? 


> However, when I've done 
> that Khaled has to make sure that it also works in his wrapper code as I 
> don't know to what extend he overloads code. I can only test in the 
> plain variant and context.

If you adapt the context files I can make some tests by exchanging
the luaotfload files and tell Khaled the results. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-08  9:40 Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-08 14:13 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-08 14:41   ` Ulrike Fischer [this message]
2011-02-08 16:17     ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-08 14:46   ` Khaled Hosny
2011-02-08 16:07     ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-09  9:55       ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-09 13:52         ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-09 11:23       ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-09 13:30         ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-09 16:09           ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-09 16:36             ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-10 10:03               ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-10 10:26                 ` Hans Hagen

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