On Tuesday 21 September 2010 18:37:48 Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 06:17:41PM -0400, John Culleton 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.
>
> If you all what you want is plain TeX, then why you are looking for
> ConTeXt solutions, I mean you don't need ConTeXt nor ConTeXt file
> locating system (which does not use kpathsea) to use plain format.
>
> The issue you have is because your ConTeXt MkIV is not properly
> setup yet (true for fresh TeXLive 2010 installs). You need to run
> `luatools -generate` to generate the file database (used to
> locating files, similar to running texhash and likes, but TeXLive
> scripts does not run it by default). Then you need to set your
> system font paths, by setting OSFONTDIR, and ConTeXt will then be
> able find system fonts.
>
> However, you don't need any of then to use system fonts with plain,
> there are already packages for this (based on dome of ConTeXt code,
> but adapted to be self contained and ConTeXt independent).
>
> A small test file would be:
>
> \input luaotfload.sty % works for plain despite the .sty
> \font\pagella={name:TeX Gyre Pagella:script=latn;+onum} at 10pt
> \font\termes={file:texgyretermes-regular.otf:script=latn} at 10pt
> \pagella some text 12345\par
> \termes other text
> \bye
>
> This should work out of box on texlive (at first run it will take
> some time building font database). If it does not work, it is a
> bug.
>
> For LaTeX, just check fontspec documentation, and there is a
> lualatex-dev list on CTAN, and luatex list for general, non-ConTeXt
> questions.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
Now that works! I'll try it on my XP partition also to see how well I
fare. And I need to fiddle with some non-Gyre fonts as well.
You mentioned building a database, and yes that took some time. Is
there a way to have it scan fonts in /usr/share/fonts as well?
--
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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