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Wondering what are the use cases of unicode-math and mathspec packages, I stumbled upon this excellent question and better answers, that helped me clarify the situation.

If I understand correctly, the goal of the mathspec package is to be able to use regular (unicode?) fonts to typesetting math. This may not be the ideal situation, but makes perfect sense in some cases.

Unfortunately, it seems that the mathspec package is only compatible with XeLaTeX and its maintenance status is unclear.

Im aware of the mathastext package, but its author says, that it:

was initially developed for the traditional TEX fonts and engines, and that compatibility with Unicode engines and OpenType fonts is partial.

So I wonder how authors have to proceed if they are using LuaLaTeX and want to use non-math regular fonts to typeset their formulae? Is there any mathspec-equivalent for LuaLateX? Does this make any sense at all?

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    if you care about accessibility and copy&paste use unicode-math. See also tex.stackexchange.com/a/487319/2388
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Commented Apr 18, 2023 at 14:54
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    use unicode-math you just need one math font to set up the math mode parameters, you can additionally load any number of opentype text fonts for \mathxxx{...
    – David Carlisle
    Commented Apr 18, 2023 at 16:06

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Is there any mathspec-equivalent for LuaLaTeX?

I suggest you look into the unicode-math package. It works with both LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX.

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(transferred from comment) mathfont works both with xelatex and lualatex.

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