> As an example: I'm interested in "virtual lua fonts", that means > some lua-code which describes a font build by getting (and > reordering) glyphs from other real fonts and which can be loaded > like a real font with the \font command. At some time it could be > done in context (and so also with luaotfload when it was in sync) > but you had to use undocumented internal functions with not garanty > that they didn't change the next day and there wasn't a sane way to > set up the search pathes for such fonts. It is no fun to develop > only such ad-hoc solutions.
would having a new font format ending with ".luafont" (or something similar) and a defined API help? Or what would your preferred interface be like? Patrick
