lualatex makeindex : can I change the font ?

[Ken Moffat]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:48:44PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> st 16. 4. 2025 v 13:08 odesílatel Ken Moffat via tex-live
> <tex-live at tug.org> napsal:
> >
> > I'm guessing this has been discussed somewhere in the past, but
> > gurgle is giving me a lot of noise and links for macOS or the online
> > way of writing LaTeX.
> >
> > Years ago (2016 orearlier), when I thought (from reading online) that
> > pdflatex was a good way to go, I created an essay using pdflatex,
> > bibtex and makeindex.  I am now tring to update that (modern
> > historical sources, including archaeology, suggest the myths
> > promulgated by Anglo-Saxon clerics such as Bede for the years before
> > he lived are "double plus unreliable", as is much of the later
> > Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
> >
> > So, a lot of editing needed.
> >
> > When I used pdflatex I could use \textsc{} for names, particularly
> > personal names (to help distinguish them from placenames, which were
> > my original subject). I much prefer the open 'g' of DejaVu Serif, but
> > that lacks a small cap font.  Is it
> > practical for me to specify a different font for Small Caps, both in
> > makeindex and in the main text ?
> >
> That's quite easy. You can change the style by redefining the ist file
> for makeindex and redefine "theindex" environment. In lualatex and
> xelatex the fonts can be defined using the fontspec package. You just
> do it as described in the old makeindex and theindex documentation
> with the only exception that you use the modern way of font
> definitions.
> 
> > TIA
> >
> 
> Zdeněk Wagner
> https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/
> 
> 
Many thanks!

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