Am Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:07:43 +0200 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:
Hello Ulrike,
1. In the following document there is no space between the a and the y:
\documentclass{article} \begin{document} \noindent a\\y
\bigskip
a\par y \end{document}
It looks as if the lines have only the depth from their content.
I don't seem to see that (see attachment). How did you generate the format? I used “luatex -ini pdflualatex.ini” where pdflualatex.ini contains
\pdfoutput1 \input latex.ltx
I tried it with a format generated by simply inputting latex.ltx (and then \pdfoutput=1 in the document), with one which loads also pdftexconfig.tex, and with a plain one: % Thomas Esser, 1998. public domain. % hyphenation tables are now set up in language.dat \input pdftexconfig.tex \input plain \dump \endinput In all cases (also if I try dvi-output) the lines glue together. The attachment text-lua is the pdf of the latex try.
2. I found here some code to use truetype and opentype fonts: http://luatex.bluwiki.com/go/Use_a_TrueType_font
Oh, that ;-) You really have to realize that these lines of code are nothing more than an experiment I wrote one and a half year ago, and you should be prepared to extend it if you want complete TrueType support (not to mention OpenType features, which are absent altogether).
Yes I realized that ;-). Currently I'm trying simple code to understand the principles so that I can later steal the right things from the context files.
That said, the problems should not be as bad as the ones you report below:
a) I tested it with a latin modern font and arial and with both fonts all lines of a text are printed one above the other. of the lines have a height and a depth.
That's not what happens to me, you should really send a precise example.
See test-lua2.tex + pdf
b) I also tried MnSymbol5.otf and there I get an error "invalid character". (I tried to get an "A"). With xetex the font works fine.
I can't confirm that. I get the A all right (see attachment). Again, please send the precise example that fails.
The MnSymbol-Bold5 you used works fine for me too. MnSymbol5 is the font
doesn't work (the code is -- commented -- in test-lua2):