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

hf at hongfeng.ch hf at hongfeng.ch
Mon Mar 25 01:14:57 CET 2024 

Good morning, Bruno!

I have got your three emails sent me to yesterday.  Thank you so much. 

I did noticed there is a mailing list, and now I've selected the `reply all` to it :)

Just now, I downloaded the tarball `install-tl-unx.tar.gz` from tug.org,
and installed `install-tl-20240324` (the newest release today, good daily building!), 
I ticked the `book publishing scheme (core Latex and add-ons)` for the installation
(to use `perl install-tl -gui` is easier for me). 

After the completion, I installed the Lucida Bright OpenType font to `texmf-local`
by unzipping, then ran `mktexlsr`, and tried this simple tex file:

```
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
 
\usepackage{fontspec} % support opentype text fonts
\setmainfont{LucidaBrightOT.otf}  % missed in my last try.

\begin{document}

This document contains examples of the Lucida's OpenType fonts available
through TUG. This is the ``best'' font I am favorite of so far.
 
\end{document}
```

I issued this command to run:

```
$ lualatex lucidaot
```

It works! I have seen the beautiful Lucida Bright font appeared in the output pdf file!

Next, I wait more hints from you about ConTeXt's support to Lucida Bright OpenType font.


Best,
Hong



2024年3月24日 23:03, "Bruno Voisin" <bvoisin at icloud.com> 写到:

> Dear Hong,
> 
> Beware that, by default, this list sends answers to the original poster only, not to the list. To 
> ensure that answers go to the whole list, you need to use Reply-To-All.
> 
> For this reason I'm quoting your whole message below, so that people from the list can see it.
> 
>> 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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