[OS X TeX] TexLive 2012 luatex test

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:12 AM, Roland Thiers wrote:

> Bonjour,
> I have installed with success MacTeX on my Macbook (Léopard).
> After that, following the TeX Live Guide , I tried some testing.
> Every test succeeded, included > xetex opentype-info.tex, except
> one of them : >luatex opentype-info.tex.
> I got this message :
> 
> This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012062819 (TeX Live 2012)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/xetex/xetexfontinfo/opentype-info.tex
> ! Font \testfont=Latin Modern Roman/ICU at 12pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.
> 
> So, I followed the advice (see section 3.4.4) and I copied the texlive-fontconfig.conf file to
> ~/.fonts.conf and run fc-cache -fv.
> 
> But no change. I guess I misunderstood some thing !
> Thanks for your help. However it's not crucial for me, I use pdftex engine
> and everything works perfectly , olds as news documents. I am just curious about luatex.
> 
> Many thanks to all the contributors to TexLive and MacteX who do a superb job
> and also to all guys who ask and answer on this list !
> 
> Roland Thiers
> 
> Lycee du Grand Noumea


Howdy,

Did you do the optional installation of the Open Type versions of the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts in the MacTeX installer?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)