Font selection in LuaTeX

Font selection in LuaTeX

[Marcel Korpel]

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.

By the way, I tried this using LuaTeX beta-0.11.2 on a Linux system
and TeXLive 2007. I know I can use XeTeX, but XeTeX doesn't support
character protrusion and several pdfTeX-specific commands, which I
really like to use.

I hope someone can clarify this to me. Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,
Marcel Korpel
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Re: Font selection in LuaTeX

[Hans Hagen]

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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