Re: Fonts

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 06:17:41PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> Well I have been typesetting books in plain tex and pdftex for a 
> decade or more. Supposedly luatex is a superset of pdftex that makes 
> finding fonts easier and eliminates the generation of tmf files. But I 
> seem to be sinking into a deeper swamp.

If you all what you want is plain TeX, then why you are looking for
ConTeXt solutions, I mean you don't need ConTeXt nor ConTeXt file
locating system (which does not use kpathsea) to use plain format.

The issue you have is because your ConTeXt MkIV is not properly setup
yet (true for fresh TeXLive 2010 installs). You need to run `luatools
-generate` to generate the file database (used to locating files,
similar to running texhash and likes, but TeXLive scripts does not run
it by default). Then you need to set your system font paths, by setting
OSFONTDIR, and ConTeXt will then be able find system fonts.

However, you don't need any of then to use system fonts with plain,
there are already packages for this (based on dome of ConTeXt code, but
adapted to be self contained and ConTeXt independent).

A small test file would be:

\input luaotfload.sty % works for plain despite the .sty
\font\pagella={name:TeX Gyre Pagella:script=latn;+onum} at 10pt
\font\termes={file:texgyretermes-regular.otf:script=latn} at 10pt
\pagella some text 12345\par
\termes other text
\bye

This should work out of box on texlive (at first run it will take some
time building font database). If it does not work, it is a bug.

For LaTeX, just check fontspec documentation, and there is a
lualatex-dev list on CTAN, and luatex list for general, non-ConTeXt
questions.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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