[lltx] luaotfload update
Patrick Gundlach
patrick at gundla.ch
Sun Oct 16 22:47:50 CEST 2011
Am 16.10.2011 um 20:56 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 07:31:39PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>> Hi Khaled,
>>
>> thanks again very much for your work on luaotfload. It's very useful.
>>
>> At least one question remains: are there any changes regarding type1
>> fonts? If they are not supported: do you think that a patch will break
>> the compatibility with Hans' code?
>
> I think it is fairly isolated, you need to define a type1 reader
> function:
>
> fonts.formats.pfb = "pfb"
> function fonts.readers.pfb(specification)
> -- process specification
> -- load the font and process it
> -- may be apply an afm file
> return tfmtable
> end
OK, that's cool. I think I can cook something up. Probably "unstable" at the beginning but better than nothing. I already have font loader for type1 fonts here (without ligatures yet).
Patrick
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