[luatex] fontspec.sty

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:18:55PM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> On my installation LuaTeX can't use fontspec.sty, because it requires
> XeTeX.

It is the other way around, your installation of fontspec is too old and
does not support luatex. I don't know what version you are using, but
you need texlive 2010 at least for that combination to work.

> When browsing the manual for references to XeTeX, one finds three:
> 
>     the extension to full Unicode (the \U prefix) is compatible with XETEX.
> 
>     New primitives that are compatible with XETEX:
> 
>     consistent with its changed meaning in XETEX. 
> 
> This seems to suggest that compatibility with XeTeX is a design goal.

This is mostly related to OpenType math work and not related to your
issue.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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