[lltx] Type1 fonts
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Dec 26 21:07:24 CET 2010
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:00:04PM +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
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> Am 26.12.2010 um 20:41 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
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> > Am 26.12.2010 um 17:44 schrieb Philipp Stephani:
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> >> Am 26.12.2010 um 16:50 schrieb Arno Trautmann:
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> >>> If not – what would be the simplest way to use a Type1 font in luaLaTeX?
> >>> (Given that no TeX adaption is present so far.)
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> >> LuaLaTeX is more-or-less backwards compatible with pdfLaTeX, so Type1 fonts work as with pdfLaTeX. That means you have to generate TFM, ENC, MAP, FD files etc., usually with the fontinst script. I don't think that there is a special interface to deal with Type1 fonts in LuaTeX (after all, they're obsolete).
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> > LuaTeX can read Type1 fonts with the fontloader mechanism, without going through the legacy pdftex code. But I believe that LuaLaTeX does not support using Type1 fonts with the fontloader library. Perhaps they are obsolete, but still widely used.
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> I should add that this is just meant as "it is possible with LuaTeX but not with LuaLaTeX". So a quite useless comment, unless someone from the LuaLaTeX team proves me wrong (or implements type1 loading).
Patches are welcomed.
Sorry, can't resist :p
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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