[lltx] Type1 fonts

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:41:03PM +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 
> Am 26.12.2010 um 17:44 schrieb Philipp Stephani:
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> > Am 26.12.2010 um 16:50 schrieb Arno Trautmann:
> > 
> >> If not – what would be the simplest way to use a Type1 font in luaLaTeX?
> >> (Given that no TeX adaption is present so far.)
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> 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.

Type1 fonts have been declared obsolete a decade or so before I touched
a TeX system, I never used them (apart from legacy TeX fonts) myself,
and they are pretty useless for any of my needs. The code we borrowed
from ConTeXt lacked the pfb/afm loading part since Hans too finds them
obsolete, and there is no much incentive for me to work on it.

Regards,
 Khaled

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