[lltx] Fwd: [MacTeX] fontspec for LuaTeX

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun May 30 16:28:02 CEST 2010


On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:46:33PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 30/05/2010, at 11:42 PM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> 
> > Le 30/05/2010 16:02, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> >> I think we should no longer ask people to run mkluatexfontdb
> >> script, luaotfload will take care of generating database.
> > 
> > Ok, good to know.
> 
> Wait, so just to be clear: mkluatexfontdb no longer uses fontconfig?
> It just uses fontconfig information to know where to search?
> 
> And this means that it can still be run automatically even with restricted shell escape?
> 
> I didn't realise this had been implemented already. I'm going to have to update some documentation.

Yes, it is, I no longer run the standalone script myself. The reading of
fontconfig configuration files is not as done as we might like, but it is
basically working and Elie is working on the remaining issues.


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


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