I have been playing around with lua fonts and investigating where to store and how to load them. The best with luaotfload and latex seems to be currently to get (with a kpse call) the absolute path and then load with the "xetex" syntax: \font\duckchessfont = [\directlua{tex.sprint(kpse.find_file("luafont-duckchess.lua", "misc fonts"))}]:mode=node;+liga;+tlig;original=latinmodernsans This worked but I also saw in the log curious messages luaotfload | load : font option "/Users/XXXX/Documents/Git/lua-font- pond/texmf/fonts/misc/luafont/luafont-duckchess.lua]:mode=node" unknown. I investigated a bit. I'm on windows and imho this looks as if the syntax parser is splitting after the C: of the drive and putting the rest in the specification.detail field. As far as I can see the code which does the splitting is in font-def.lua and so part of the generic code. Is there anything that can be done to correct his? Or can one somehow protect the colon after c: to be interpretated as file-detail separator? -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/