Using fonts from the LaTeX Font Catalogue

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2021-05-09 at 22:17:22 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:

 > On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 22:00, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
 > wrote:
 >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > After all, lookup tables of any kind are extremely painful unless they
 > > can be generated and updated automatically without much effort.
 > >
 > > Regards,
 > >   Reinhard
 > >
 > >
 > sure but the relevant table (in any syntax) can be generated from the
 > existing lualatex font cache, luaotfload has
 > already done the work of trawling every font in the texlive tree and
 > mapping the internal names to filenames.
 >
 > All you need to do is walk over that Lua data and write it to a file in a
 > suitable syntax.
 >
 > There is already (Marcel is quick:-) an experimental branch of the
 > luaotfload-tool git sources with an option to do exactly that.
 >
 > Not easily usable yet from latex, as fontspec would need to know about it
 > but already it allows the primitive \font syntax
 > to use (normalised) font names rather than file names.

Sounds promising...

Regards,
  Reinhard

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