[texhax] Please help recognize font
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Jul 2 22:31:53 CEST 2018
On 2018-07-02 at 21:48:05 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> writes:
>
> > According to the web site cited by Ben the font is available as
> > OTF only, so Rodolfo can only choose between between xetex and
> > luatex anyway.
> >
> > Rodolfo, coming back to your question:
> > In order to use CharisSIL-Roman and CharisSIL-Bold with LuaTeX I
> > wrote
> >
> > \font\CSr=file:CharisSIL-R.ttf at 10pt
> > \font\CSb=file:CharisSIL-B.ttf at 10pt
> >
> > This is quite different from [pdf]TeX where you have to call a
> > font by the basename of the associated .tfm file.
> >
> > At least when using LuaTeX you can load a font either by _font
> > name_ or by _file name_. Admittedly I don't have any experience
> > with XeTeX.
> >
> > LuaTeX requires that luaotfload is loaded. It's supposed to work
> > with both, LaTeX and plain TeX. XeTeX supports OTF fonts
> > natively but without a Lua engine under the hood it is less
> > flexible.
>
>
> Many thanks... If the font really *has* to be purchased, the
> problem though now is a mere question of money... Too expensive,
> I'm afraid...
Sure. There are other vendors too but they are even more expensive.
Why do you want to typeset the concert program yourself? If you are
going to do _their_ work then _they_ can buy the fonts for you (and
save a lot of time). Manpower is more expensive than fonts nowadays. ;)
Regards,
Reinhard
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the texhax
mailing list