[luatex] LuaTeX precompilation

[Paul A Norman]

Hi,

If nothing else surfaces, a possible workaround path might surface here in
this thread ...

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3888/how-to-generate-a-static-font-family-from-a-variable-font-details-inside

And ...

https://github.com/jonpalmisc/vfit

Cheers,
Paul

On Thursday 21 December 2023, <blumens at fi.muni.cz> wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 12/20/2023 10:07 PM, blumens at fi.muni.cz wrote:
>>
>> > What I'll probably do is to continue to use pdftex until the book is
>> > done, and then generate the final version with luatex and better fonts.
>>
>> It could be interesting to see (and report) if indeed that gives better
>> resuts. If you use LM hen basically the T1 fonts are comparable
(shapewise)
>> and it might even be that luatex does math a little less well due to
>> opentype math fonts having issues.
>
> No, I use commercial fonts with my own TFM/VF files.
>
> What I meant above is that I recently bought a sans serif variable font,
> that I would like to substitute for cms, but I don't know how to create
> TFM files for that. So, I require luatex if I want to use it.
>
> Apart from that I only expect minor differences, mainly because I don't
> have to split each font into several pieces. So I don't lose kerning
> information between glyphs from different pieces. Also TFM metrics
> support only a small number of different widths/heights. So the real
> metrics have to be rounded when generating TFM files.
>
> Achim
>
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