Am 26.12.2010 um 20:41 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: > > Am 26.12.2010 um 17:44 schrieb Philipp Stephani: > >> Am 26.12.2010 um 16:50 schrieb Arno Trautmann: >> >>> If not – what would be the simplest way to use a Type1 font in luaLaTeX? >>> (Given that no TeX adaption is present so far.) >> >> LuaLaTeX is more-or-less backwards compatible with pdfLaTeX, so Type1 fonts >> work as with pdfLaTeX. That means you have to generate TFM, ENC, MAP, FD >> files etc., usually with the fontinst script. I don't think that there is a >> special interface to deal with Type1 fonts in LuaTeX (after all, they're >> obsolete). > > LuaTeX can read Type1 fonts with the fontloader mechanism, without going > through the legacy pdftex code. But I believe that LuaLaTeX does not support > using Type1 fonts with the fontloader library. Perhaps they are obsolete, but > still widely used.
I should add that this is just meant as "it is possible with LuaTeX but not with LuaLaTeX". So a quite useless comment, unless someone from the LuaLaTeX team proves me wrong (or implements type1 loading). Patrick
