[lltx] [luaotfload] Footnotes

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:09:47AM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 09/04/2010, at 2:37 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 
> >> One solution to this specific issue is to make the old font definition
> >> syntax load only TFM fonts, and make loading system fonts only through
> >> the extended syntax, so:
> >> 
> >> \font\tenrm=ec-lmr10 at 10pt
> >> 
> >> or the extended:
> >> 
> >> \font\tenrm=file:ec-lmr10 at 10pt
> >> 
> >> Will not consult font names database, so old code that expects TFM fonts
> >> will continue to work as expected, while:
> >> 
> >> \font\tenrm={name:Latin Modern Roman} at 10pt
> >> 
> >> Would be required to load system (or texmf) fonts by name. What do
> >> others think about this?
> > 
> > Will, what do you think? As this would need a bit of work at fontspec,
> > If it is OK, we (you :) can switch to the explicit "name:" and "file:"
> > syntax right away (bot are already supported), later we can restrict
> > old syntax to filename only lookup so things don't break.
> 
> 
> If it can be abstracted inside fontspec, I think this is a good solution.
> Let's implement it and try it out.
> 
> The following defaults will happen, I think:
> 
> \fontspec{Latin Modern Roman} % <- name
> \fontspec{ec-lmr10}           % <- name
ec-lmr10 is a tfm file, but anyway the name mechanism falls back to
filename if no font is found (but going directly to filename search is
faster).

> \fontspec{ec-lmr10.otf}       % <- file (from the extension)
> \fontspec[Path]{ec-lmr10}     % <- file
> 
> ([Path] is the same as [ExternalLocation].)
> 
> This is the same as currently happens, so I can't see any problems.

OK, once the change is made in fontspec, I'll change luaotfload
defaults.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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