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6 luaotfload.conf - Luaotfload configuration file
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9 · ./luaotfload{.conf,rc}
10 · XDG_CONFIG_HOME/luaotfload/luaotfload{.conf,rc}
12 · ~/.luaotfloadrc
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16 The file luaotfload.conf contains configuration options for Luaotfload,
17 a font loading and font management component for LuaTeX.
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20 A small Luaotfload configuration file with few customizations could
21 look as follows:
22 [db]
24 formats = afm,ttf
25 compress = false
26 [misc]
28 termwidth = 60
29 [run]
31 log-level = 6
32 This will make Luaotfload ignore all font files except for PostScript
34 binary fonts with a matching AFM file, and Truetype fonts. Also, an
35 uncompressed index file will be dumped which is going to be much larger
36 than the default gzip’ed index. The terminal width is truncated to 60
37 characters which influences the verbose output during indexing.
38 Finally, the verbosity is increased greatly: each font file being pro‐
39 cessed will be printed to the stdout on a separate line, along with
40 lots of other information.
41 To observe the difference in behavior, save above snippet to ./luaot‐
43 fload.conf and update the font index:
44 luaotfload-tool --update --force
46 The current configuration can be written to disk using luaotfload-tool:
48 luaotfload-tool --dumpconf > luaotfload.conf
50 The result can itself be used as a configuration file.
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54 The configuration file syntax follows the common INI format. For a more
55 detailed description please refer to the section “CONFIGURATION FILE”
56 of git-config(1). A brief list of rules is given below:
57 · Blank lines and lines starting with a semicolon (;) are ignored.
59 · A configuration file is partitioned into sections that are
61 declared by specifying the section title in brackets on a separate
62 line:
63 [some-section]
65 ... section content ...
66 · Sections consist of one or more variable assignments of the form
68 variable-name = value E. g.:
69 [foo]
71 bar = baz
72 quux = xyzzy
73 ...
74 · Section and variable names may contain only uppercase and lower‐
76 case letters as well as dashes (-).
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79 Variables in belong into a configuration section and their values must
80 be of a certain type. Some of them have further constraints. For exam‐
81 ple, the “color callback” must be a string of one of the values
82 post_linebreak_filter, pre_linebreak_filter, or pre_output_filter,
83 defined in the section run of the configuration file.
84 Currently, the configuration is organized into four sections:
86 db Options relating to the font index.
88 misc Options without a clearly defined category.
90 paths Path and file name settings.
92 run Options controlling runtime behavior of Luaotfload.
94 The list of valid variables, the sections they are part of and their
96 type is given below. Types represent Lua types that the values must be
97 convertible to; they are abbreviated as follows: s for the string type,
98 n for number, b for boolean. A value of nil means the variable is
99 unset.
100 Section db
102 ┌─────────────────┬──────┬───────────────┐
103 │variable │ type │ default │
104 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
105 │compress │ b │ true │
106 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
107 │designsize-dimen │ b │ bp │
108 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
109 │formats │ s │ "otf,ttf,ttc" │
110 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
111 │max-fonts │ n │ 2^51 │
112 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
113 │scan-local │ b │ false │
114 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
115 │skip-read │ b │ false │
116 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
117 │strip │ b │ true │
118 ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
119 │update-live │ b │ true │
120 └─────────────────┴──────┴───────────────┘
121 The flag compress determines whether the font index (usually luaot‐
123 fload-names.lua[.gz] will be stored in compressed forms. If unset it
124 is equivalent of passing --no-compress to luaotfload-tool. Since the
125 file is only created for convenience and has no effect on the runtime
126 behavior of Luaotfload, the flag should remain set. Most editors come
127 with zlib support anyways.
128 The setting designsize-dimen applies when looking up fonts from fami‐
130 lies with design sizes. In Opentype, these are specified as “deci‐
131 points” where one decipoint equals ten DTP style “big points”. When
132 indexing fonts these values are converted to sp. In order to treat the
133 values as though they were specified in TeX points or Didot points, set
134 designsize-dimen to pt or dd.
135 The list of formats must be a comma separated sequence of strings con‐
137 taining one or more of these elements:
138 · otf (OpenType format),
140 · ttf and ttc (TrueType format),
142 · afm (Adobe Font Metrics),
144 It corresponds loosely to the --formats option to luaotfload-tool.
146 Invalid or duplicate members are ignored; if the list does not contain
147 any useful identifiers, the default list "otf,ttf,ttc" will be used.
148 The variable max-fonts determines after processing how many font files
150 the font scanner will terminate the search. This is useful for debug‐
151 ging issues with the font index and has the same effect as the option
152 --max-fonts to luaotfload-tools.
153 The scan-local flag, if set, will incorporate the current working
155 directory as a font search location. NB: This will potentially slow
156 down document processing because a font index with local fonts will not
157 be saved to disk, so these fonts will have to be re-indexed whenever
158 the document is built.
159 The skip-read flag is only useful for debugging: It makes Luaotfload
161 skip reading fonts. The font information for rebuilding the index is
162 taken from the presently existing one.
163 Unsetting the strip flag prevents Luaotfload from removing data from
165 the index that is only useful when processing font files. NB: this can
166 increase the size of the index files significantly and has no effect on
167 the runtime behavior.
168 If update-live is set, Luaotfload will reload the database if it cannot
170 find a requested font. Those who prefer to update manually using luaot‐
171 fload-tool should unset this flag. This option does not affect rebuilds
172 due to version mismatch.
173 Section default-features
175 By default Luaotfload enables node mode and picks the default font fea‐
176 tures that are prescribed in the OpenType standard. This behavior may
177 be overridden in the default-features section. Global defaults that
178 will be applied for all scripts can be set via the global option, oth‐
179 ers by the script they are to be applied to. For example, a setting of
180 [default-features]
182 global = mode=base,color=0000FF
183 dflt = smcp,onum
184 would force base mode, tint all fonts blue and activate small capitals
186 and text figures globally. Features are specified as a comma separated
187 list of variables or variable-value pairs. Variables without an
188 explicit value are set to true.
189 Section misc
191 ┌───────────┬──────┬─────────────────────┐
192 │variable │ type │ default │
193 ├───────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┤
194 │statistics │ b │ false │
195 ├───────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┤
196 │termwidth │ n │ nil │
197 └───────────┴──────┴─────────────────────┘
198 │version │ s │ <Luaotfload ver‐ │
200 │ │ │ sion> │
201 └───────────┴──────┴─────────────────────┘
202 With statistics enabled, extra statistics will be collected during
204 index creation and appended to the index file. It may then be queried
205 at the Lua end or inspected by reading the file itself.
206 The value of termwidth, if set, overrides the value retrieved by query‐
208 ing the properties of the terminal in which Luatex runs. This is useful
209 if the engine runs with shell_escape disabled and the actual terminal
210 dimensions cannot be retrieved.
211 The value of version is derived from the version string hard-coded in
213 the Luaotfload source. Override at your own risk.
214 Section paths
216 ┌─────────────┬──────┬─────────────────────────┐
217 │variable │ type │ default │
218 ├─────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
219 │cache-dir │ s │ "fonts" │
220 ├─────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
221 │names-dir │ s │ "names" │
222 ├─────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
223 │index-file │ s │ "luaot‐ │
224 │ │ │ fload-names.lua" │
225 ├─────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
226 │lookups-file │ s │ "luaot‐ │
227 │ │ │ fload-lookup-cache.lua" │
228 └─────────────┴──────┴─────────────────────────┘
229 The paths cache-dir and names-dir determine the subdirectory inside the
231 Luaotfload subtree of the luatex-cache directory where the font cache
232 and the font index will be stored, respectively.
233 Inside the index directory, the names of the index file and the font
235 lookup cache will be derived from the respective values of index-file
236 and lookups-file. This is the filename base for the bytecode compiled
237 version as well as -- for the index -- the gzipped version.
238 Section run
240 ┌───────────────┬──────┬─────────────────┐
241 │variable │ type │ default │
242 ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┤
243 │anon-sequence │ s │ "tex,path,name" │
244 ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┤
245 │color-callback │ s │ "post_line‐ │
246 │ │ │ break_filter" │
247 ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┤
248 │definer │ s │ "patch" │
249 ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┤
250 │log-level │ n │ 0 │
251 ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┤
252 │resolver │ s │ "cached" │
253 ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┤
254 │fontloader │ s │ "default" │
255 └───────────────┴──────┴─────────────────┘
256 Unqualified font lookups are treated with the flexible “anonymous”
258 mechanism. This involves a chain of lookups applied successively until
259 the first one yields a match. By default, the lookup will first search
260 for TFM fonts using the Kpathsea library. If this wasn’t successful, an
261 attempt is made at interpreting the request as an absolute path (like
262 the [/path/to/font/foo.ttf] syntax) or a file name (file:foo.ttf).
263 Finally, the request is interpreted as a font name and retrieved from
264 the index (name:Foo Regular). This behavior can be configured by speci‐
265 fying a list as the value to anon-sequence. Available items are tex,
266 path, name -- representing the lookups described above, respectively
267 --, and file for searching a filename but not an absolute path. Also,
268 my lookups are valid values but they should only be used from within
269 TeX documents, because there is no means of customizing a my lookups on
270 the command line.
271 The color-callback option determines the stage at which fonts that
273 defined with a color=xxyyzz feature will be colorized. By default this
274 happens in a post_linebreak_filter but alternatively the pre_line‐
275 break_filter or pre_output_filter may be chosen, which is faster but
276 might produce inconsistent output. The pre_output_filter used to be the
277 default in the 1.x series of Luaotfload, whilst later versions up to
278 and including 2.5 hooked into the pre_linebreak_filter which naturally
279 didn’t affect any glyphs inserting during hyphenation. Both are kept
280 around as options to restore the previous behavior if necessary.
281 The definer allows for switching the define_font callback. Apart from
283 the default patch one may also choose the generic one that comes with
284 the vanilla fontloader. Beware that this might break tools like
285 Fontspec that rely on the patch_font callback provided by Luaotfload to
286 perform important corrections on font data.
287 The fontloader backend can be selected by setting the value of font‐
289 loader. The most important choices are default, which will load the
290 dedicated Luaotfload fontloader, and reference, the upstream package as
291 shipped with Luaotfload. Other than those, a file name accessible via
292 kpathsea can be specified.
293 Alternatively, the individual files that constitute the fontloader can
295 be loaded directly. While less efficient, this greatly aids debugging
296 since error messages will reference the actual line numbers of the
297 source files and explanatory comments are not stripped. Currently,
298 three distinct loading strategies are available: unpackaged will load
299 the batch that is part of Luaotfload. These contain the identical
300 source code that the reference fontloader has been compiled from.
301 Another option, context will attempt to load the same files by their
302 names in the Context format from the search path. Consequently this
303 option allows to use the version of Context that comes with the TeX
304 distribution. Distros tend to prefer the stable version (“current” in
305 Context jargon) of those files so certain bugs encountered in the more
306 bleeding edge Luaotfload can be avoided this way. A third option is to
307 use context with a colon to specify a directory prefix where the TEXMF
308 is located that the files should be loaded from, e. g. context:~/con‐
309 text/tex/texmf-context. This can be used when referencing another dis‐
310 tribution like the Context minimals that is installed under a different
311 path not indexed by kpathsea.
312 The value of log-level sets the default verbosity of messages printed
314 by Luaotfload. Only messages defined with a verbosity of less than or
315 equal to the supplied value will be output on the terminal. At a log
316 level of five Luaotfload can be very noisy. Also, printing too many
317 messages will slow down the interpreter due to line buffering being
318 disabled (see setbuf(3)).
319 The resolver setting allows choosing the font name resolution function:
321 With the default value cached Luaotfload saves the result of a success‐
322 ful font name request to a cache file to speed up subsequent lookups.
323 The alternative, normal circumvents the cache and resolves every
324 request individually. (Since to the restructuring of the font name
325 index in Luaotfload 2.4 the performance difference between the cached
326 and uncached lookups should be marginal.)
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329 Luaotfload only processes the first configuration file it encounters at
330 one of the search locations. The file name may be either luaot‐
331 fload.conf or luaotfloadrc, except for the dotfile in the user’s home
332 directory which is expected at ~/.luaotfloadrc.
333 Configuration files are located following a series of steps. The search
335 terminates as soon as a suitable file is encountered. The sequence of
336 locations that Luaotfload looks at is
337 i. The current working directory of the LuaTeX process.
339 ii. The subdirectory luaotfload/ inside the XDG configuration tree, e.
341 g. /home/oenothea/config/luaotfload/.
342 iii. The dotfile.
344 iv. The TEXMF (using kpathsea).
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348 luaotfload-tool(1), luatex(1), lua(1)
349 · texdoc luaotfload to display the PDF manual for the Luaotfload pack‐
351 age
352 · Luaotfload development https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload
354 · LuaLaTeX mailing list http://tug.org/pipermail/lualatex-dev/
356 · LuaTeX http://luatex.org/
358 · Luaotfload on CTAN http://ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload
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362 · The XDG base specification
363 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html.
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366 Luaotfload was developed by the LuaLaTeX dev team (‐
367 https://github.com/lualatex/). It is currently maintained by the LaTeX
368 Project Team at https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload
369 This manual page was written by Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>.
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