[luatex] accented characters in plain luatex
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Apr 15 00:34:17 CEST 2011
Dirk Laurie <dpl at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:23:43PM +0200, Bob Tennent wrote:
> >
> > Now the accented characters don't display properly and although luatex
> > processes minimalUTF.tex, the accented characters are missing in the
> > resulting dvi.
>
> Well, if you stick to Computer Modern, of course you're stuck
> in the pre-UTF era.
>
> Try a more recent font. My personal favourite is Antikwa Toruņska.
> In LaTeX, \usepackage{anttor}
>
> Unfortunately, I so seldom use plain TeX (yes, I run MusiXTeX via
> LaTeX) that I don't know what \font command to use. If someone
> knows how to deduce that from a LaTeX log file, please tell me.
ctan:fonts/cm-unicode
includes otf and type 1 versions (not that i've investigated in any
detail, but the readme file does say they'll work with (xe|lua)tex).
robin the catalogue freak.
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