How would LyX perform?

[Steve Litt]

Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:36:44 +0100

>Am 31.12.21 um 01:41 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users:
>> Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:52:15 +0100
>>  
>>> Am 30.12.21 um 14:46 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users:  
>>>> Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:31:55
>>>> +0100  
>>>>> This has shocked me
>>>>> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069
>>>>>
>>>>> Would be interesting to see how LyX performs  
>>>> Plain TeX would be much better than LaTeX, as a native format, if
>>>> it could handle fonts well. Does anyone know of a Plain TeX to
>>>> LuaTeX or XeTeX converter?  
>>> What do you want to convert?? Every Plain TeX document runs with
>>> LuaTeX or XeTeX,
>>> but, of course, not vice versa!  
>> My thought is that I need to convert because I need to use the
>> tex-gyre-schola font, and as far as I know, Plain TeX won't
>> accommodate this font. So, as I understand it, my process would need
>> to be:
>>
>> 1: Write in Plain TeX with whatever font is available
>>
>> 2: Convert Plain TeX to LuaTeX  
>
>
>You only have to load the font, tha's all ...
>
>\input luaotfload.sty
>\font\rm="[texgyreschola-regular.otf]:+lnum;+dlig"
>\font\bf="TeXGyre Schola/B:+lnum;+dlig"
>\font\it="TeXGyre Schola/I:+lnum;+dlig"
>\font\bfit="TeXGyre Schola/BI:+lnum;+dlig" at 15pt
>
>\rm
>TeX Gyre Schola regular
>
>\bf TeX Gyre Schola bold
>
>\it TeX Gyre Schola italic
>
>\bfit  TeX Gyre Schola bolditalic
>\bye
>
>
>Herbert

Thanks Herbert!

This opens a whole new world for me. I'll experiment with it next year.

Happy New Years all!

SteveT

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