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Nov 14 |
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How do I get a list of all font features supported by current font What I need is add the features list to a latex file which list fonts directly. Of course I know I can query it from otfinfo from a terminal |
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Why does it take LuaLaTeX so long to load fonts and can I speed it up? @doncherry xetex use system libraries to load and render font. Luatex convert all font data to huge lua table, it make use fontforge's library. In short, luatex's approach is more flexible (you can patch the lua font table if you really need), and perhaps more portable, but the performance is nowhere close to xetex. |
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Oct 6 |
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Why does it take LuaLaTeX so long to load fonts and can I speed it up? The problem is simply because minion is a large font (~1700 glyphs each font)and requires a lot of memory. In fact, Garamond Premier Pro and Arno Pro is even lager, with Luatex you cannot even use them in practice (~4.5 gb memory required). If you want it faster and still use luatex, try find some simpler fonts with less features. Only use Minion when you finalizing the output. |
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Sep 1 |
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unicode-math and various fonts fail at giving decent spacing in formula It is most likely the problem with xelatex. Try lualatex, which is much better at Unicode math right now. Also update to tl2012. The xelatex in tl2012 has some noticeable improvement |
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Aug 20 |
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May 30 |
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font garamond without oldstylenumbers If you don't want old style number, you absolutely shall not use Garamond. Garamond in running text without text figures just looks ugly. |
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May 24 |
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Different compilation times with different Operating Systems Thanks for the explanation. How can I miss the point that you can mount a remote directory local! |
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May 24 |
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Different compilation times with different Operating Systems I know how to add non-native binaries to the TL distribution through tlmgr. But even you installed say darwin binary on the server, how do you use it without having a local copy on your Mac? Even with SSH it is still running on the server. So what is purpose to have Win32 and Mac binaries on a Linux server? Sorry about such questions. Don't feel obligated to answer my very non-sense questions. |
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May 24 |
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Different compilation times with different Operating Systems I was just curious. However I still don't understand, even you installed win32 binary, that binary won't run on a Ubuntu server unless I missed something. OS-depedent differences can be large if two binaries use different libraries at all (e.g., XeTeX), because they are not doing the same work after all |
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May 24 |
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Different compilation times with different Operating Systems XeTeX use system libraries to provide font handling functionality. So its performance shall be system dependent. Besides, generally all programs' performances are system dependent, the difference can be very small or noticeable depending on what you are working on. For example, Linux's GNU C Library's math functions are significantly slower than Windows and Mac. Anyway that is off-topic. The bottom line you shall not expect things work exactly the same on different platforms. Also, what do you mean darwin and win32 on Ubuntu? That makes no sense. |
