[Dev-luatex] Luatex and metafont
Mauricio CA
mauricio.antunes at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 18:20:45 CEST 2011
>>> Can I use metafont fonts with luatex?
>> they are independent entities, so the answer is yes
>> if you mean: can I include bitmaps, the answer is yes too (because
>> the backend supports bitmaps -> type 3)
> But please note that (from manual) "type3 fonts are provided for
> backward compatibility only, and do not support the new wide encoding
> options."
I've being learning metafont and I thought I could use luatex for
enconding conveniences, like input in utf-8. Does that sentence mean I
can't map utf-8 input to a metafont font?
Thanks,
Maurício
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