Publications by topic: Fonts in text and math

From the TUG Online Conference 2021

Reviving Type 3 fonts for modern LuaLaTeX documents

• Marcel Krüger
• Video of the TUG 2021 online conference
• Keywords: Type3 fonts
• Abstract

  For a long time, Type 3 fonts in LaTeX-generated PDF files were known for (undesirable) bitmap fonts, but that’s only a small aspect of what this font format can do. With OpenType color fonts, the idea behind Type 3 fonts has seen a revival, and LuaTeX recently added support for adding such fonts for non-bitmap use cases too.

  In this talk I want to look at how this format can be used to create smaller and simpler PDF files involving color fonts and user-generated glyphs and consider advantages and disadvantages in contrast to traditional alternatives like virtual fonts or macrobased solutions.

Typesetting Bangla script with LuaLaTeX

• Ulrike Fischer and Marcel Krüger
• TUGboat 41:1, 2020
• Abstract

  A case study of using LuaLaTeX and the new Harfbuzz library.

From the TUG Conference 2018 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Unicode fonts with fontspec and unicode-math (slides)

• Will Robertson
• TUG Conference 2018 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Abstract:

While the fundamentals of both the fontspec and unicode-math packages have stayed the same, these packages have undergone a significant amount of development behind the scenes. While many users won’t be interested in the technical details, there are a number of feature additions that deserve broader discussion.

In this presentation I will cover the basics of these packages and best practices for using them, specifically including more recent features that users may not yet have seen. I will also try to give an overview of some technical details to focus on expl3 package development and lessons learned.

Video of the talk recorded by IMPA on YouTube: Unicode fonts with fontspec and unicode-math

An exploration of the Latin Modern fonts

• Will Robertson
• Published paper, TUGboat, Volume 28 (2007), No. 2

Will Robertson’s look at the Latin Modern font families and their features.

Everything we want to know about Font Resources

• Chris Rowley
• Published paper, TUGboat, Volume 27 (2006), No. 2 — Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting