[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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