[luatex] [lltx] Patching fonts with the luaotfload callback "luaotfload.patch_font"

Philipp Stephani st_philipp at yahoo.de
Sun Feb 6 18:34:42 CET 2011


Am 06.02.2011 18:03, schrieb Ulrike Fischer:
> But I want in the end to do something like
> \font\myfont="myvirtualfont". The luatex manual contains an example
> with a virtual font and this syntax. But it uses the define_callback
> to implement it and at my opinion this is not the right place to
> define a single virtual font. It would be much better if one could
> store the definitions of the virtual font in a stand-alone file and
> let luaotfload "find" and handle the font. But I don't neither if
> this is already possible nor how. 

This has always been possible, long before LuaTeX was invented:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=virtualfonts


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