[lucida] Three remarks/reports about Lucida OpenType

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 03:00:00PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
> 
>     (1) Loading the fonts with fontspec, it seems that XeLaTeX finds the
>         bold and bold italic fonts but LuaLaTeX doesn't. For the latter,
>         you have to indicate that bold is actually demibold, as in
> 
> Khaled said that this is fixed in the current version of luaotfload?

I tested again now and bold is found but not bold italic, not sure if
the later were never fixed or if it broke recently, I'll check.

>     (2) The example lucidaot.tex typesets successfully with LuaLaTeX but
>         not XeLaTeX. 
> 
> Yes, I neglected to try the final lucidaot.tex with xelatex, and it
> trivially fails due to the \url in the title material.  I will fix as
> soon as I have a chance.
> 
>     (3) [italic corrections]
>     For LuaTeX I'm not aware of any such mechanism. If there is, does
>     anybody know how to activate it?
> 
> As usual with LuaTeX, italic corrections are not built into the engine.
> It is possible to write Lua code (e.g., invoked at font-loading time) to
> approximate it.  But I am not sure if anyone has done a package to make
> it easy to do so.
> 
> Khaled, do you know?  If not, this is a question for the luatex list
> (lists.tug.org/luatex), sorry.

No there isn't, but I'm considering to turn that feature on by default
after doing some testing (I also found that XeTeX actually does italic
correction for text with OpenType fonts).

Regards,
 Khaled