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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: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:23:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f47gcwjhz8dw$.dlg@nililand.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D516A4B.3040907@wxs.nl>

Am Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:07:39 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen:

>>>> 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. 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.

> You only need to load one extra file:
> 
>      loadmodule('font-lua.lua')
> 
> Then, if
> 
>    \font\mine=file:luatex-fonts-demo-vf-1.lua at 12pt

What are the search pathes for such virtual lua fonts? I suggested
the file extension ".vflua" because I thought it would be senseful
if not the search path for general .lua files is used. I wanted to
put this virtual fonts in a dedicated location e.g. fonts/vflua/....

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-09 11:23 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
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 [this message]
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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