On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, John Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com> wrote: > > Well I have been typesetting books in plain tex and pdftex for a > decade or more. Supposedly luatex is a superset of pdftex that makes > finding fonts easier and eliminates the generation of tmf files. But I > seem to be sinking into a deeper swamp. > > Here is the base problem. All other publishing related programs on my > system will > a) look in /usr/share/fonts and > b) list the fonts fond there in a window when selecting fonts. > > Laying aside b) for the moment it would be nice if some form of TeX > (preferably not LaTeX) would join the party and find Type1, TTF and OTF > fonts in the system standard location. Gimp does this, Scribus does > this, Inkscape does this, Open Office Writer does this and so on. > Luatex supposedly does this. But getting Luatex to work on a new > standard distro , texlive 2010, seems to be a game of whackamole. > I tried comp.text.tex but when no one there seemed to have the right > answers and many of the names mentioned in the documentation were > gurus here I thought I would ask how to get the luatex business set > up. > > My goal is to use the stuff myself of course but also to describe how > to do it in a book I am writing on Free Publishing Software. It does > not appear that Luatex is suitable for a newbie to set up. Remember, > the competition consists of programs where you download and install > the program and font finding is automatic. I write for an impatient > audience who want to have it all just work without a lot of > experimentation and fuss and feathers. There does not yet seem to be a > reliable single set of instructions for installing Luatex and setting > it up properly. When there is I will revisit the program. > > Thanks for helping and sorry to have wasted your time. A bit off topic: you can consider minimals & metatex.tex with mkiv (hence not texlive); it should build a (sort of) plain tex with luatex .
See tex/context/base/metatex.tex but a bit of experience is required, I believe. -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
