[XeTeX] on fontspec 2.0

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

Hi Khaled,

Thank you for the advice.

Basic question that I dont seem to get or find the answer to:

I've downloaded 'mkluatexfontdb.lua' from github and put it in the
luaotfload directory (which was already installed through texlive).
but then how do I call it? I've tried simply running luatex on it,
which gives me the error:
"...ve/2009/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luatextra/luaextra.lua:28: attempt
to index glo
bal 'luatextra' (a nil value)"

I've also tried various other ways of calling it, including using the
'--lua=', but none of these seem to be the right ones. All of them
return the file cannot be found (and i ran mktexlsr and texhash
obviously).

The manual compiles fine no, thanks for the tip. Also, I'm fine
loading my OpenType font using the ExternalLocation switch, with the
obvious drawbacks of selecting a single file and not a whole family.

To prempt extra trouble, my fotns are in my TEXMFLOCAL tree, not in
the system fonts folder. Does that require any extra configuration
(I've got it to work with XeTeX, I'm on TeXlive 2009)?

Lastly, from the manual it seems you don't have access to a Windows
machine. The systems font path (section 4.1) is generally
c:\Windows\fonts, the path in there now is for very old systems. In
any case, should you want me to test run some stuff, I am a fulltime
user of a Windows XP (32bit) and a Windows 7 (64bit) box, feel free to
send me stuff to run.

Best,
Dee

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> Inconsolata is available from CTAN and included with TeX Live, you can
> use tlmgr to install it.
>
> However, the manual is not complete yet.
>
> For the time being, you can do the following:
> * make sure you are running luatex 0.51 or above
> * get luaotfload from githup, install it and use the supplied
>  'mkluatexfontdb.lua' script to build font names database
> * then fontspec should be able to find system and TEXMF fonts
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:13:26PM +0800, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
>> Hmm,
>>
>> I see a lot of stuff seems Mac oriented. Could someone send me the
>> manual offlist?
>>
>> I hope it includes configuration instructions, right now LuaLaTeX cant
>> find the opentype fonts that XeLaTeX can...
>>
>> oh, the font the .dtx compilation errors out on is rm-inconsolata, typo before.
>>
>> Best,
>> Dee
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Diederick C. Niehorster
>> <dcnieho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All, Khaled,
>> >
>> > Just tried to extract fontspec.dtx that I got form github. Just to let
>> > you know, the manual won't compile, i dont have the rm-consolata font.
>> > Could you use standard fonts in the manual, i'm on windows.
>> >
>> > Looking forward to working with it for the rest, lets see what it can do!
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Dee
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On 2010-02-15 07:35:37 +1030, Pablo Rodríguez <oinos at web.de> said:
>> >>
>> >>> some time ago, we were introduced to the fontspec 2.0
>> >>> (http://github.com/wspr/fontspec), that will be compatible with LuaLaTeX.
>> >>
>> >> Right. The primary development for the LuaLaTeX part of fontspec has been by
>> >> Khaled Hosny and Elie Roux.
>> >>
>> >> The primary goals for v2 is LuaTeX support; I hope to overhaul the
>> >> interface/feature set after my thesis is finished later this year. Having
>> >> said that, feel free to offer feature requests on the Issues page on GitHub
>> >> linked above.
>> >>
>> >>> If I don't get it wrong, so it will be possible to use LuaLaTeX with the
>> >>> system fonts the same way that we use it with XeLaTeX, so no special
>> >>> font installation needed, won't it?
>> >>
>> >> Yes, but it will require, perhaps, a little more configuration than fontspec
>> >> on XeTeX currently does.
>> >>
>> >>> Are there plans to include the final 2.0 version with TeXLive 2010?
>> >>
>> >> Hope so :)
>> >> If the bugs get ironed out this/next week then I hope to make a "beta
>> >> version" announcement here and on the LuaTeX list for wider testing.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Will
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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