On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:41:03PM +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > 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.
Type1 fonts have been declared obsolete a decade or so before I touched a TeX system, I never used them (apart from legacy TeX fonts) myself, and they are pretty useless for any of my needs. The code we borrowed from ConTeXt lacked the pfb/afm loading part since Hans too finds them obsolete, and there is no much incentive for me to work on it. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
