[lucida] install Lucida Bright OpenType for TeXLive (2024-03-21 release)

Sun Mar 24 16:03:46 CET 2024

Dear Hong,

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> On 24 Mar 2024, at 11:38, hf at hongfeng.ch wrote:
> 
> Dear Bruno,
> 
> Thank you so much for your guide. Here are more details about the drawback about
> my installation of Lucida Bright Opentype font on TeXLive:
> 
> 1. The system I use is Pop!_OS (GNU/Linux, on an x86 PC).
> 
> 2. I have unzipped the font into the `texmf-local` as recommended by the instruction. 
> 
> Before unzipping, I tried this:
> 
> ``
> $ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL
> /home/hf/xanadu/WORKSPACE/texlive/texmf-local
> $
> 
> ```
> 
> I also did the `mktexlsr` to refresh the font database.
> 
> 3. Test. Here it is the simple tex file I tried:
> 
> ```
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> 
> \usepackage{fontspec} % support opentype text fonts
> \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=.92}
> 
> \title{Lucida OpenType fonts from TUG}
> \author{\TeX\ Users Group\\[2pt]\code{https://tug.org/lucida}}
> \begin{document}
> 
> \maketitle
> 
> This document contains examples of the Lucida OpenType fonts available
> through TUG. They can be used with any OpenType-aware application,
> including the Lua\TeX\ and \XeTeX\ extensions of \TeX\ (but not
> pdf\TeX). A brief overview:
> 
> \end{document}
> ```
> 
> I got the error message:
> 
> ```
> $ pdflatex test
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2021-11-15> patch level 1
> L3 programming layer <2022-01-21>
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2021/10/04 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdftex.def)))
> 
> ! Fatal Package fontspec Error: The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or
> (fontspec)                      LuaTeX.
> (fontspec)                      
> (fontspec)                      You must change your typesetting engine to,
> (fontspec)                      e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex" instead of
> (fontspec)                      "latex" or "pdflatex".
> 
> Type <return> to continue.
> ...                                              
> 
> l.45 \msg_fatal:nn {fontspec} {cannot-use-pdftex}
> 
> ? 
> ```

Two things here:

- I see you used lucidaot.tex as the basis for your test file. However, you removed too much: loading fontspec is not enough, you need to tell it to use the Lucida fonts, writing

\setmainfont{LucidaBrightOT.otf}

and so forth. Attached is a fixed version of your file.

- You cannot use pdfLaTeX. As written in the TUG doc, and even in the text of the test file itself, only XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX can use Opentype fonts. pdfLaTeX can't. So it's either of

xelatex test
lualatex test

but certainly not

pdflatex test

Choosing LuaLaTeX, you may have to wait for a couple of seconds while luaotfload-tool creates its font name database.

> 4. I prefer to use ConTeXt over Latex, tried this simple tex file named `try-context.tex` too:
> 
> ```
> \setupbodyfont[lucida-ot]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> Testing Lucida Bright's OpenType font.
> 
> \stoptext
> ```
> 
> I ran this:
> 
> ```
> $ context try-context > try-context.log
> ```
> 
> The `try-context.pdf` generated succcessfully, but the font used is the default 
> cmr, not the Lucida Bright OpenType. The log file is quite long, and I attached it 
> with this email for your analyze. 
> 
> (BTW, I'd done the `mtxrun --generate` before this test, I also attached the log 
> of this command as attached file for your reference.)

Here I can't help unfortunately. I'm no ConTeXt user myself. Running your example with either old-style ConTeXt ("context --luatex", based on LuaTeX) or new-style ConTeXt ("context", based on LuaMetaTeX), I get the same as you: Latin Modern, not Lucida.

After over two hours looking at the ConTeXt doc in texmf-dist/doc/context, the input files inside texmf-dist/tex/context, and also on the web at <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts>, especially

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida_-_Old_Content
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_fonts
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Typescripts_examples
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Use_the_fonts_you_want

I feel none the wiser.

I have the impression ConTeXt has support files for Lucida OpenType,

type-imp-lucida.mkiv
lucida-text.lfg
lucida-math.lfg

These are not included in TeX Live, but can be retrieved from the full ConTeXt distribution at

https://www.pragma-ade.nl/download-1.htm

or from the GitHub mirror at

https://github.com/contextgarden/context/tree/main/tex/context/fonts/mkiv

I installed them in TEXMFLOCAL/tex/context/fonts/mkiv, ran "sudo mktexlsr", for good measure ran also

context --luatex --generate
mtxrun --script fonts --reload

I then modified your test file to be

\loadtypescriptfile[lucida]
\setupbodyfont[lucida]
\starttext
Testing Lucida Bright's OpenType font.
\stoptext

Doesn't work, I still get Latin Modern and absolutely no mention of Lucida in the log. I tried using \usetypescriptfile instead of \loadtypescriptfile, call the typescript file as lucida-opentype, set the body font to lucidaot: nothing has the faintest effect, it's always Latin Modern, not Lucida.

It's been more than three hours now, I'm giving up. Sorry!

Bruno

> Best,
> Hong

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