Questions tagged [luaotfload]
{luaotfload} is a package to load OpenType Fonts(OTF) in Plain TeX/ LaTeX and to select OTF font features.
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What is the least resource intensive way to generate the luatex font cache for a new font?
When a font is first used with lualatex, luaotfload does some magic to produce font cache files.
For large fonts (e.g., Noto Sans CJK) this can take a lot of time and a lot of memory.
I have an old ...
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microtype: \texls has no effect
I use microtype's \textls in combination with fontspec to change the tracking of text, and until recently, this worked as it should. Recently, it seems to have stopped to work with fonts other than ...
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Is luaotfload package broken?
Today's (2019-02-09) tlmgr update of TeXLive 2018 (on Linux) broke my project (around twelve hundred pages in several books typeset with LuaLaTeX using Adobe Garamond Pro) severely — almost all the ...
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luaotfload: can't find font after updating font database
I have installed a new font "MCS Diwany1 S_U adorned." with xelatex there is no problem but with lualatex a file like this
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Script=...
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Custom Lua feature for CID-keyed font
fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature in luaotfload can be used to create custom features for fonts.
The unicode values of glyphs can be used for CID fonts in the same way as for GID fonts, but some fonts ...
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examples for broken rendering of scripts in lualatex
The code of luaotfload mentions a number of scripts for which the support is incomplete. I would like to check if this is true and what perhaps could be done.
As I know nothing about these scripts, ...
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using glyphs in the Corporate Use or Microsoft Symbol Areas
Since updating TeX Live yesterday (luaotfload was among the packages updated, to version 2.9, dated 2018/09/24), I’m having difficulty with glyphs in the Corporate Use Area and the MicroSoft Symbol ...
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Problems with LuaTeX 1.08 even on a very simple document
I just installed luatex 1.08 released yesterday (the installation is a manual process and replaces the original luatex v1.07 that ships with Texlive 2018) on my on GNU/Linux x86_64 machine and re-...
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Errors with libttf (was Font metric data not found or bad)
I'm having trouble loading some right-to-left fonts in a document I'm working on. I chose one at random — Avestan.
MWE requires that you download https://noto-website-2.storage.googleapis.com/pkgs/...
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fontspec/luaotfload: defining custom features without OTF feature file support
Since 2016, fontspec no longer supports standard OTF feature files. These files made it possible to define sophisticated custom changes to the way an OpenType font is processed. That feature file ...
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Filling an empty slot in a font with another glyph from the same font
I am trying to use an existing glyph from an OpenType font to fill an empty slot in the same font using LuaLaTeX. fontspec.pdf (v2.6g, part VI) shows a hack that can substitute already existing glyphs ...
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lualatex (with fontspec) finds fonts only by font file name
I cannot get lualatex (MacTeX2017, updated this morning) to use font names. It seems only to want to use font file names.
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% !TEX TS-program = LuaLaTeX
\documentclass{...
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! LaTeX Error: File `luaotfload.sty' not found
On Ubuntu 16.04 I noticed that none of the Latex tools will supported other fonts than default. E.g. code like
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Ubuntu Mono}
All tools fail with the same / similar ...
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luaotfload-tool can find fonts, but LuaLaTeX cannot find them to compile
I have otf Alegreya Sans Small Caps installed system wide:
luaotfload-tool --find="AlegreyaSansSC" --fuzzy luaotfload | resolve :
Font "AlegreyaSansSC" found! luaotfload | resolve : Resolved file ...
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“beelines” solution — texlive 2017
This beelines text gradient solution worked until I updated to texlive 2017. Sadly it no longer seems to work.
Beelines Solution
The MWE below depends on two LuaTex files:
Files created by Philipp ...
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How are font names chosen for LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX?
I've installed a ttf version of Adobe Garamond Pro on my computer (a Mac) using the Font Book application. The font files are in /Library/Fonts/. I'm wondering how XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX end up picking ...
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“luaotfload.sty not found” and tlmgr “running on debian” issue
I've just installed Linux Mint 18.2 and TeX Live 2017 (I'm pretty sure; see below). I actually have two separate issues masked into one, so I will present them both.
I have the following minimum ...
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Setting up a sans serif math font with combofont: large integral wrong
I'm currently playing around and try to build a sans serif font in lualatex with combo fonts. For the test I use as base math font TeX Gyre Pagella Math and try to pull in glyphs from other math and ...
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Call a (luatex-)combo font through NFSS
After some struggles I found a way to call a combo-font (which combines glyphs from two fonts) so that I can get various font sizes.
Has anyone an idea how one could inject this code (or other code ...
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Fill a lua table with lowercase/uppercase pairs.
I would like to add the Letters=Uppercase option to a font which hasn't the needed open type feature built in.
This is (with lualatex) possible like this:
\documentclass{article}
\directlua
{
...
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LuaLaTeX can’t find fonts organised by FontExplorer X
I’m trying to switch from XeLaTeX to LuaLaTeX but unfortunately the latter doesn’t seem to find fonts that are organised with FontExplorer X, while XeTeX hasn’t any problems. The following example ...
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Adjusting kerning with LuaTeX and realscripts
I'm using the realscript package to get true super- and subscripts with LuaLaTex. However I'm not pleased with kerning of superscripts with the font I'm using, Linux Libertine. I've tried to adjust ...
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Removing OT features, apparently can be done?
Using TeXlive 2016 with LuaLaTeX on Ubuntu. Consider this MWE:
% !TeX program = LuaLaTeX
% !TeX encoding = UTF-8
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Numbers=OldStyle]{Linux ...
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Recent change to luaotfload or fontspec, otf?
I am using TeXlive 2016 on Ubuntu with LuaLaTex, all up to date. As of a week ago (or so), the following code worked for me. It defines a new, custom Open Type feature using Lua code, as described by ...
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How to load otf font file by filename (using absolute path on windows)
I use texlive 2016 on windows (TeXStudio/latexmk/lualatex). The following MWE worked for me until the last texlive 2016 update (tlmgr update --all; executed 26th january 2017).
\documentclass[12pt]{...
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MiKTeX/TeXworks and LuaLaTeX [duplicate]
I'm trying to compile a document with the LuaLaTeX engine, since LuaLaTeX is the only one that allows to use all fonts in my computer. But when I'm going to compile the document, I get this error ...
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fontspec error with lualatex MiKTeX
When compiling MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
Hello
\end{document}
I get the error message (part of it)
LaTeX Font Info: Try loading font information for EU2+lmr ...
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luaotfload conflict with fontspec [duplicate]
After the most recent miktex update, the following code will not compile with lualatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}
The same error happens if I ...
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Select a font via luaotfload on lua side
I'm creating a glyph node (a capital A) on lua side:
\directlua{%
n = node.new('glyph')
n.font = font.current()
n.char = 65 % ASCII code for capital A
}
I know how to select current font (font....
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Can I downsize lua tables generated by luaotfload?
luatex loads a lot of otf fonts at every luaLaTeX run with my custom class (Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Minion Math, Latin Modern Mono, Latin Modern Math, XITS). This is an extract taken from my custom ...
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Why does fontspec fontloader recompile an existing .luc file at each run of luatex?
Consider the following snippet:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
Test
\end{document}
Compiling with lualatex, one can read in the log file:
(compiling luc: /usr/local/...
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“beeline” files not being found
Using the solution presented by @PhilippGesang per line text gradient for some reason my texlive is not finding the files, although I've texhashed myself half to death. My environment is ubuntu 14.04, ...
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Properly breaking up ligatures using selnolig / LuaLaTeX
Currently I use the selnolig package together with LuaLaTeX to automatically break up ligatures. This works quite well regarding the fact that ligatures get broken up at the right places. Note however,...
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TeXLive2016 lualatex does not use optical sizes for MinionPro opentype font
With current texlive 2016, the file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures={TeX}}
\setmainfont{Minion Pro}
\begin{document}%
\newcommand{\MyText}{No offence ...
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Remove ligature in a font using luaotfload (TeXLive 2016)
The luaotfload package in TeXLive 2016 has an interface to add new font features and replace the FeatureFile feature of fontspec in previous versions (see the following patch: https://github.com/wspr/...
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Problems with LuaLaTeX and Combining Characters
A project I'm working on requires the use of a somewhat unusual character, m̊. Unlike, say, the "a with ring," as in Swedish, a pre-combined form of this letter does not exist in Unicode, it can only ...
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fontspec with LuaLaTeX using Arial Narrow, while XeLaTeX is correct
I'm currently working on a document which I edit from multiple machines, both running Windows 10. In both cases I'm using Miktex (x64). There is however an issue on one machine, when I try to compile ...
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How to adjust font features in LuaTeX?
As of version 2.7 of luaotfload the support for font feature files (.fea) has been dropped.
On the ConTeXt mailing list Hans showed how to make font substitution work through Lua. More examples are ...
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Problem with lualatex and feature files
I want to use a feature file to change the positioning of a single letter, but it does not seem to work. Here is an example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\RequirePackage{...
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error: luaotfload | db : Font names database not found, generating new one [closed]
I'm using LuaLaTex on windows 8.1. While compiling encountered this error message:
luaotfload | db : Font names database not found, generating new one.
luaotfload | db : This can take several ...
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LuaTeX font database cannot be created in texlive (windows)
I'm trying to generate arabic article with a new package arabluatex, which requires lualatex engine, writing simple "hello world" example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{arabluatex}
\...
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non-printing characters in the OpenType layout of LuaLaTeX [closed]
And while we are at it, there is another probable bug in the LuaLaTex OpenType layout code: a couple of non-printing characters (such as 200c, 200d, 200e 200f and so on) do in fact show up in the pdf, ...
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letters and spacing in Arabic — bug in OpenType layout of LuaLaTeX
I perceive the following unwanted outcome:
Two issues:
In the first line, the last word on the right has a small gap between the second and the third letter from the right that is not supposed to be ...
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luaotfload | load : path lookup unsuccessful [closed]
When I typeset documents with LuaLaTeX and OpenType fonts I regularly get messages like this in the .log file
luaotfload | load : path lookup of "Palatino Linotype.ttf" unsuccessful,
falling ...
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LuaLaTeX font loader picks Regular variant from system font repertory but Bold from texmf-local
I have on my system for some years TrueType versions of a an older release of a (free) font (Vollkorn) in my texmf-local.
I have now downloaded the more recent release, which has more variants, and ...
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Use optical sizes of fonts with fontspec for local files [duplicate]
Now, this is the exact same question as Is there a way to use different local font files for different font size in fontspec?, but is is left without a solution. @WillRobertson answered in a comment ...
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Can't get oldstyle figures in url with lualatex
The following works with xelatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{same}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Libertine Serif}[Numbers = {OldStyle, Proportional}]
\begin{...
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Context sensitive glyph appears even when hyphenation removes the context
The Alegreya font has a pretty clever feature by which it substitutes the regular f glyph with a variant that has a longer cross stroke when the f is followed by t. The result is that the two cross ...
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Combine kerning, small caps, and tracking in luatex
As is known, luatex requires the fontspec option Renderer = Basic in order to display small caps when microtype's tracking = true is used.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[tracking = true]{...
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Problems with luaotfload and MacTeX 2015
I'm trying to come to terms with LuaLaTeX (MacTeX 2015, Mac OS 10.10.4). I am trying to run luaotfload -vvv -u but it hangs:
17:11 ~% luaotfload-tool -vvv -u
luaotfload | util : Setting the log level ...
