From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Font selection in LuaTeX
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:09:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474C1714.5060306@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a31ed7840711270423u2d89bbeck1a3060f24e23bd6f@mail.gmail.com>
Marcel Korpel wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As a heavy Plain TeX user I wish to experiment with LuaTeX. I know
> this is slightly off-topic to this list, but I see several questions
> related to LuaTeX user problems here.
>
> In message http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/026365.html
> Hans Hagen stated that one could also define fonts using a more
> XeTeX-like syntax like:
>
> \font=\test=name:ACaslonPro-Regular:liga=yes;
>
> or
>
> \font=\test=name:ACaslonPro-Regular*default
>
> As I don't use ConTeXt I wanted to give this approach a try (and I
> assume the =-signs after "\font" are Hans's mistakes, I guess). So I
> put ACaslonPro-Regular.otf in my
> /opt/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/opentype directory, did a rehash so the
> font could be found and tried a test file. Unfortunately, LuaTeX
> complained it could not find the font metrics. Maybe I need to make an
> entry in a map file somewhere? I looked through this list, Google,
> etc., but couldn't find where. Also, the syntax
> file:ACaslonPro-Regular.otf didn't work. pdfTeX etc. can find font
> files there, so that should not be the problem.
although i can make much mkiv font related code work ok for plain i
haven't done that (yet) so you need to use context mkiv
(btw, the xetex syntax is not adviced for mkiv, it's just there to show
that it can be done; use predefined features sets)
Hans
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