[luatex] not able to load a PostScript font

[Pablo Rodríguez]

On 07/25/2010 10:22 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:07:08PM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>>  [...]
>> But I get an error, because fontspec is not able to find the metrics
>> for the PostScript font.
>
> Fontspec (luaotfload actually) doesn't support Type1 (postscript) fonts.
> ConTeXt has code to load Type1 fonts using AFM files, but this code
> didn't get into luaotfload, you can use Type1 fonts through old TeX TFM
> machinery instead (i.e. no fontspec).

I wonder whether a future version of luaotfload could have the code to 
load PS fonts implemented.

Thanks for your help,


Pablo