On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:00:04PM +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > 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).
Patches are welcomed. Sorry, can't resist :p Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
