[luatex] Unicode math issue with LuaLaTeX

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Sun Jun 13 14:11:41 CEST 2010


Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> Ulrik Vieth <ulrik.vieth at arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/13/2010 12:01 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>>> Is there a $\fam=3 $ set up in lualatex?
>>> Sorry, that should be \fam=4, I guess. Luatex takes the parameters
>>> from the currently active math family, I think.
>> Seems to me that LuaLaTeX starts out with TFM-based CM fonts preloaded
>> in \fam 0...3.  (That's still the default setup for LaTeX, after all.)
>> After that, unicode-math.sty begins to load additional OT math fonts
>> in \fam 4 and upwards.
> 
> no.  latex sets up the fonts thus, but doesn't assign the families until
> the first maths group; this way, you can have a non-cm font family
> without being having 4 families already set up -- remember, there's a
> chronic shortage of maths font families.

There was a chronic shortage of math families :)

Thanks for clearing this up, but it turns out this is not related to the
bug at hand at all (see my other email).

Best wishes,
Taco


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