[OS X TeX] Spurious bold in lualatex

Martin Berggren martin.berggren at cs.umu.se
Mon Aug 12 22:05:29 CEST 2013


Allright, some more experiments done.

On another computer, I noted that the file given below works fine with "standard" MacTeX-2013. However, when updating using tlmgr update --all, the script hangs while trying to rebuild the latex font database. Googling the issue reveals that others have experienced the same thing. I killed the process, and updated instead by running Herbert's suggestion:

On Aug 12, 2013, at 21:35 , Herbert Schulz wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> That should be all lowercase:
> 
> luaotfload-tool -u -f -vvv
> 

in the terminal. That update terminated without problem. However, then I am back to the erroneous bold body text using the file given below!

>> 
>> On Aug 12, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Martin Berggren <martin.berggren at cs.umu.se> wrote:
>> 
>>> Issue in lualatex after updating to MacTeX-2013, or perhaps after latest tlmgr update, not sure. I seem to sometimes erroneously get bold body text. Example:
>>> 
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> % !TEX TS-program = lualatex
>>> 
>>> \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
>>> \setmainfont{Adobe Caslon Pro}
>>> \title{Title}
>>> \author{Me}
>>> 
>>> \usepackage{lipsum}
>>> 
>>> \begin{document}
>>> 
>>> \maketitle
>>> 
>>> \lipsum[1]
>>> \section{Section}
>>> 
>>> \lipsum[1]
>>> 
>>> \end{document}
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The body lipsum text's in bold. The only text not in bold is author's name and date. This does not happen when running xelatex or when switching back to MacTex-2012. 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 



Martin Berggren
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