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authorPhilipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>2016-04-20 23:46:32 +0200
committerPhilipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>2016-04-20 23:48:41 +0200
commit4c2b3301e98ac3075cc3d93a47fd497b8f9b6d52 (patch)
treec91abc6fb656a198b1d879875c95039af5f606cf /doc
parent13a1b80721a76be09a2ee4c91f629c21faacda31 (diff)
downloadluaotfload-4c2b3301e98ac3075cc3d93a47fd497b8f9b6d52.tar.gz
[*] remove references to obsolete formats (PF{A,B}, DFONT, FEA)
Thanks to @dohyunkim for reminding me to be thorough! At least in our own files. A patch has been sent upstream to apply the same change to the generic loader.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/luaotfload-main.tex4
-rw-r--r--doc/luaotfload-tool.rst13
-rw-r--r--doc/luaotfload.conf.rst13
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/doc/luaotfload-main.tex b/doc/luaotfload-main.tex
index 92a4c01..0d2d7eb 100644
--- a/doc/luaotfload-main.tex
+++ b/doc/luaotfload-main.tex
@@ -1334,8 +1334,8 @@ files not contained in the merge. Some of these have no equivalent in
overrides the \CONTEXT logging functionality.
\endaltitem
\beginaltitem {luaotfload-loaders.lua}
- registers the \OpenType font reader as handler for Postscript
- fonts (\abbrev{pfa}, \abbrev{pfb}).
+ registers readers in the fontloader for various kinds of
+ font formats
\endaltitem
\beginaltitem {luaotfload-parsers.lua}
various \abbrev{lpeg}-based parsers.
diff --git a/doc/luaotfload-tool.rst b/doc/luaotfload-tool.rst
index 5b834b4..c8bd8ec 100644
--- a/doc/luaotfload-tool.rst
+++ b/doc/luaotfload-tool.rst
@@ -80,22 +80,19 @@ update mode
system fonts if they are installed in both.
--formats=EXTENSIONS Extensions of the font files to index.
Where *EXTENSIONS* is a comma-separated list of
- supported file extensions (otf, ttf, ttc,
- dfont, pfa, and pfb). If the list is prefixed
+ supported file extensions (otf, ttf, ttc).
+ If the list is prefixed
with a ``+`` sign, the given list is added to
the currently active one; ``-`` subtracts.
- Default: *otf,ttf,ttc,dfont*.
+ Default: *otf,ttf,ttc*.
Examples:
1) ``--formats=-ttc,ttf`` would skip
TrueType fonts and font collections;
2) ``--formats=otf`` would scan only OpenType
files;
- 3) ``--formats=+pfb`` includes binary
- Postscript files. **Warning**: with a
- standard TeX Live installation this will
- grow the database considerably and slow down
- font indexing.
+ 3) ``--formats=+afm`` includes binary
+ Postscript files accompanied by an AFM file.
query mode
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst b/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst
index 25f5a5c..eb4c491 100644
--- a/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst
+++ b/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ A small Luaotfload configuration file with few customizations could
look as follows: ::
[db]
- formats = afm, pfa, pfb
+ formats = afm,ttf
compress = false
[misc]
@@ -43,10 +43,9 @@ look as follows: ::
log-level = 6
This will make Luaotfload ignore all font files except for PostScript
-formats. NB: With a default Tex Live install the PS fonts will take
-much longer to index than OpenType or TrueType ones. Also, an
+binary fonts with a matching AFM file, and Truetype fonts. Also, an
uncompressed index file will be dumped which is going to be much larger
-due to the huge amount of PostScript fonts indexed. The terminal width
+than the default gzip’ed index. The terminal width
is truncated to 60 characters which influences the verbose output
during indexing. Finally, the verbosity is increased greatly: each font
file being processed will be printed to the stdout on a separate line,
@@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ Section ``db``
+-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
| compress | b | ``true`` |
+-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| formats | s | ``"otf,ttf,ttc,dfont"`` |
+| formats | s | ``"otf,ttf,ttc"`` |
+-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
| max-fonts | n | ``2^51`` |
+-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
@@ -158,14 +157,12 @@ containing one or more of these elements:
* ``otf`` (OpenType format),
* ``ttf`` and ``ttc`` (TrueType format),
-* ``dfont`` (Macintosh TrueType format),
* ``afm`` (Adobe Font Metrics),
-* ``pfb`` and ``pfa`` (PostScript format).
It corresponds loosely to the ``--formats`` option to
**luaotfload-tool**. Invalid or duplicate members are ignored; if the
list does not contain any useful identifiers, the default list
-``"otf,ttf,ttc,dfont"`` will be used.
+``"otf,ttf,ttc"`` will be used.
The variable ``max-fonts`` determines after processing how many font
files the font scanner will terminate the search. This is useful for