Hi, If nothing else surfaces, a possible workaround path might surface here in this thread ...
https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3888/how-to-generate-a-static-font-family-from-a-variable-font-details-inside And ... https://github.com/jonpalmisc/vfit Cheers, Paul On Thursday 21 December 2023, <blum...@fi.muni.cz> wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 12/20/2023 10:07 PM, blum...@fi.muni.cz wrote: >> >> > What I'll probably do is to continue to use pdftex until the book is >> > done, and then generate the final version with luatex and better fonts. >> >> It could be interesting to see (and report) if indeed that gives better >> resuts. If you use LM hen basically the T1 fonts are comparable (shapewise) >> and it might even be that luatex does math a little less well due to >> opentype math fonts having issues. > > No, I use commercial fonts with my own TFM/VF files. > > What I meant above is that I recently bought a sans serif variable font, > that I would like to substitute for cms, but I don't know how to create > TFM files for that. So, I require luatex if I want to use it. > > Apart from that I only expect minor differences, mainly because I don't > have to split each font into several pieces. So I don't lose kerning > information between glyphs from different pieces. Also TFM metrics > support only a small number of different widths/heights. So the real > metrics have to be rounded when generating TFM files. > > Achim >
