2012/8/8 Paul Isambert <zappathus...@free.fr>: > Ulrike Fischer <ne...@nililand.de> a écrit: >> ... >> LaTeX (and the other formats) were neglected because the development >> of a vital part of the luatex-project - the open type font loader - >> has not be developed in a format independant way. > > It has been, to some extent; and it's only transitional. > The LaTeX users do not need much, just luaotfload + fontspec + polyglossia, all the rest can be taken from old LaTeX. And nice lua features can be used to extend LaTeX.
> A 100% format-independent fontloader isn't really possible, unless you > freeze it completely. If you want to add your own bells and whistles, > which is what LuaTeX is about as far as I'm concerned, you have to > adapt it, or better, in the case of formats, write it from scratch. > As a matter of fact from the user's point of view fonts can now be handled in much easier way as never before. I buy a family of fonts, put them to a directory where the operating system expects them and that's it, fontspec does the rest. No tfm, no vf, no fd files. And cryptic font names are no longer needed. > Best, > Paul > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex