The Luaotfload PackageLuaotfload is an adaptation of the ConTeXt font loading system for the Plain and LaTeX formats. It allows OpenType fonts to be loaded with font features accessible using an extended font request syntax while providing compatibility with XeTeX. By indexing metadata in a database it facilitates loading fonts by their proper names instead of file names.
Luaotfload may be loaded in Plain LuaTeX with "\input luaotfload.sty" and in LuaLaTeX with "\usepackage{luaotfload}". LuaLaTeX users may be interested in the fontspec package which provides a high-level interface to the functionality provided by this package.
Please see the documentation luaotfload.pdf for more information.
This package is developed by the LuaLaTeX dev team on http://github.com/lualatex/luaotfload. Please report bugs to the issue tracker there.
The development for LuaLaTeX is discussed on the lualatex-dev mailing list. See http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/lualatex-dev for details.
The following people have contributed to this package.
Khaled Hosny khaledhosny@eglug.org Elie Roux elie.roux@telecom-bretagne.eu Will Robertson will.robertson@latex-project.org Philipp Gesang phg@phi-gamma.net Dohyun Kim nomosnomos@gmail.com Reuben Thomas https://github.com/rrthomas Joseph Wright joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg@elzevir.fr Olof-Joachim Frahm olof@macrolet.net Patrick Gundlach gundlach@speedata.de Philipp Stephani st_philipp@yahoo.de David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@gmail.com Yan Zhou @zhouyan
Here are the recommended installation methods (preferred first).
If you are using TeX Live 2008 or later, use 'tlmgr install luaotfload'. Alternatively, try your (TeX or Linux) distribution's package management system.
a. Download luaotfload.tds.zip from CTAN. b. Unzip it at the root of one or your TDS trees. c. You may need to update some filename database after, see your TeX distribution's manual for details.
a. Grab the sources from CTAN or github. b. Run 'make install DESTDIR=/path/to/texmf'. c. See 2c.
Try to figure it out by looking at the Makefile and comments in the sources.
You need GNU make to use the Makefile. The executable may be called "gmake" on your system.
Typesetting the documentation requires LuaTeX and GraphViz. The Docutils are needed to generate the manpage.
The luaotfload bundle, as a derived work of ConTeXt, is distributed under the GNU GPLv2 license:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
This license requires the license itself to be distributed with the work. For its full text see the documentation in luaotfload.pdf.
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