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lualatex / luamplib

generic TeX package - including MetaPost code in LuaTeX documents
http://ctan.org/pkg/luamplib
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'outlinetext' feature #133

Closed jemmybutton closed 4 weeks ago

jemmybutton commented 4 months ago

There's outlinetext function in ConTeXt's font loading system, which is sometimes very useful, and which, at the moment, seems to be missing in LuaLaTeX's set of MetaPost tools. In ConTeXt it's a part of font loading system. For this reason I though it might be a feature of luaotfload https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload/issues/271 to make things more similar. With mplibglyph function https://github.com/lualatex/luamplib/pull/132 luamplib seems to be closer to the implementation of outlinetext than luaotfload and more logical at that.

dohyunkim commented 4 months ago

v2.31 provides a new metapost operator mpliboutlinetext. Please give it a try.

jemmybutton commented 4 months ago

This works absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much! In fact, it seems to work even better than the original outlinetext in some respects. For instance, it seems to respect RtL scripts, which outlinetext had troubles with ( https://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=1023 ) and, as of now, as I just tested, still has.

jemmybutton commented 4 weeks ago

Oh, sorry, the issue can be closed