[luatex] Loading fonts from within LuaTeX

[Robert Krug]

Patrick,



Thanks for the confirmation that something like:



xxx = fonts.definers.read("drm10.otf:mode=base;liga=false;kern=false;", tex.sp("10pt"))
x = font.define(xxx)


is a reasonable approach.  I should have been more clear, (and I do want to stay exclusively on the Lua side) but the failure of



font.getfont(x)



and the success of



font.fonts[x]



led me to think I might be missing something.  This behaviour still seems odd to me. Why the difference?



I suppose as long as I have a working system, it is not that important though.



Thanks,

Robert




On February 23, 2021 at 1:08 AM, Patrick Gundlach <patrick at gundla.ch> wrote:


Hello Robert,

I am unsure what you want to do, stay on the Lua side or use the TeX side to define fonts?

I define the fonts on the Lua side by creating a font table then use

local num = font.define(newfont)

where newfont is the font table (6.1 in the manual)

Patrick



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