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Problems with luaotfload and certain font shapes

While playing around with lualatexon TL 13 I encountered a strange problem. Certain font shapes would produce an error without any visible reason. The following example is with Stempel Garamond LT Std ...
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$OSFONTDIR on OSX

I've been playing around with TeXLive 13 pretest on OSX, and I've been unable to tell luatex/luaotfload where to look for fonts. I know that luaotfload will look in the standard font directories and ...
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latest updates to lua* break … something

So, now, after most recent (23 Apr) updates (I'm using MiKTeX 2.9) to various things related to lualatex, I noticed that compilation of anything takes twice as long as it did (say) 10 minutes ago ...
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How to properly install and use a new font with LuaLaTeX?

I have problems trying to get new fonts to work when compiling with LuaLaTeX. I'm working on Mac and use TexShop (with the MacTeX package). It goes like this: I downloaded for example the Cardo ...
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fontspec-color not working correctly with microtype package [closed]

If I use the fontspec package together with the microtype package, the color-feature of fontspec does only colarize the last line of the paragraph instead of the whole paragraph, as the grouped ...
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System-wide feature file in lualatex

I have a font (Dolly) with f_i and f_l ligatures, which requires a feature file to make them work. Everything works fine using the following: # dolly.fea languagesystem DFLT dflt; languagesystem ...
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microtype settings for dummies

More than a year ago, a friend of mine was totally excited about microtype features in LaTeX. He was talking about it quite a bit and then said to me: "Show me your document, let me input some lines ...
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LuaTeX cannot find existing font

My Fedora 17 LuaLaTeX (2012) system just keeps complaining about some particular (of course existing) font not existing. It can't spit out any PDF from a TeX file using that font. This is the error I ...
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luaotfload can’t find fonts

I am using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows. luaotfload does not find the fonts located in the MiKTeX-maintained root directory (which is C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\ on my system) and I am therefore ...
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LuaLaTeX: mkluatexfontdb does not include Type-1-fonts ( = *.pfb-files)

I'm running texlive 2011 on a Linux machine. Years ago I bought some Type 1 fonts, namely Rotis. They have been installed properly and Libre Office e.g. can print them. But running mkluatexfontdb -v ...
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LuaLaTeX protrusion problem with Negative value

Please see the following screen shots. As you can see there are two "overfull" hbox there. However, LaTeX does not produced any overfull box warning at all. I tried to produce a minimal working ...
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LuaLaTeX sees a font while fc-list doesn't

I've got a fresh Arch Linux box with fresh full TeX Live installed. The installation seems to include cm-unicode fonts and lualatex seems to find them correctly, but when I run fc-list the output ...
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How do I get a list of all available fonts for luaotfload?

luaotfload uses an internal database that gets updated with mkluatexfontdb. So it knows about a lot of fonts installed on my computer. How can I query this database? Something like luatexfontdb ...
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luaotfload: how to use font in current directory?

I'd like to use a font in the current directory with luaotfload. I tried to generate the database: OSFONTDIR=$PWD mkluatexfontdb but this gives me endless output of: $ OSFONTDIR=$PWD ...