[Dev-luatex] Re: Font embedding and variable width fonts

Hello Max,

although that is kinda ugly. But the LaTeX additions to luaotfload support variable fonts via HarfBuzz, so you should probably look at what they're doing there.

I wish I could avoid the magic that is being done there: https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload/blob/main/src/luaotfload-harf-var-ttf.l... currently I use the high-level harfbuzz API for font loading and shaping, parsing the font just for variable fonts is not something I am keen to implement (especially since there is some alternative in form of the harfbuzz subsetting library). Patrick