[lltx] [luaotfload] Footnotes

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 02:19:30PM +0200, 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.

Regards,
 Khaled

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


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