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NAME

       luaotfload.conf - Luaotfload configuration file

SYNOPSIS

./luaotfload{.conf,rc}XDG_CONFIG_HOME/luaotfload/luaotfload{.conf,rc}~/.luaotfloadrc

DESCRIPTION

       The file luaotfload.conf contains configuration options for Luaotfload, a font loading and
       font management component for LuaTeX.

EXAMPLE

       A small Luaotfload configuration file with few customizations could look as follows:

          [db]
              formats = afm,ttf
              compress = false

          [misc]
              termwidth = 60

          [run]
              log-level = 6

       This will make Luaotfload ignore all font files except for PostScript 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 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, along with lots of other information.

       To  observe the difference in behavior, save above snippet to ./luaotfload.conf and update
       the font index:

          luaotfload-tool --update --force

       The current configuration can be written to disk using luaotfload-tool:

          luaotfload-tool --dumpconf > luaotfload.conf

       The result can itself be used as a configuration file.

SYNTAX

       The configuration file  syntax  follows  the  common  INI  format.  For  a  more  detailed
       description  please  refer  to  the section “CONFIGURATION FILE” of git-config(1). A brief
       list of rules is given below:

          • Blank lines and lines starting with a semicolon (;) are ignored.

          • A configuration file is partitioned into sections that are declared by specifying the
            section title in brackets on a separate line:

                [some-section]
                ... section content ...

          • Sections  consist  of  one  or  more variable assignments of the form variable-name =
            value  E. g.:

                [foo]
                    bar = baz
                    quux = xyzzy
                    ...

          • Section and variable names may contain only uppercase and lowercase letters  as  well
            as dashes (-).

VARIABLES

       Variables  in  belong  into  a configuration section and their values must be of a certain
       type. Some of them have further constraints. For example, the “color callback” must  be  a
       string   of   one   of   the   values   post_linebreak_filter,   pre_linebreak_filter,  or
       pre_output_filter, defined in the section run of the configuration file.

       Currently, the configuration is organized into four sections:

       db     Options relating to the font index.

       misc   Options without a clearly defined category.

       paths  Path and file name settings.

       run    Options controlling runtime behavior of Luaotfload.

       The list of valid variables, the sections they are part of and their type is given  below.
       Types  represent Lua types that the values must be convertible to; they are abbreviated as
       follows: s for the string type, n for number, b for boolean. A  value  of  nil  means  the
       variable is unset.

   Section db
                               ┌─────────────────┬──────┬───────────────┐
                               │variable         │ type │ default       │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │compress         │ b    │ true          │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │designsize-dimen │ b    │ bp            │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │formats          │ s    │ "otf,ttf,ttc" │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │max-fonts        │ n    │ 2^51          │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │scan-local       │ b    │ false         │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │skip-read        │ b    │ false         │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │strip            │ b    │ true          │
                               ├─────────────────┼──────┼───────────────┤
                               │update-live      │ b    │ true          │
                               └─────────────────┴──────┴───────────────┘

       The  flag  compress  determines  whether the font index (usually luaotfload-names.lua[.gz]
       will be stored in compressed forms.  If unset it is equivalent of passing --no-compress to
       luaotfload-tool.  Since  the file is only created for convenience and has no effect on the
       runtime behavior of Luaotfload, the flag should remain set. Most editors  come  with  zlib
       support anyways.

       The  setting  designsize-dimen  applies  when  looking  up fonts from families with design
       sizes. In Opentype, these are specified as “decipoints” where one decipoint equals ten DTP
       style  “big  points”.   When  indexing fonts these values are converted to sp. In order to
       treat the values as though they  were  specified  in  TeX  points  or  Didot  points,  set
       designsize-dimen to pt or dd.

       The  list  of formats must be a comma separated sequence of strings containing one or more
       of these elements:

       • otf               (OpenType format),

       • ttf and ttc       (TrueType format),

       • afm               (Adobe Font Metrics),

       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" 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 debugging issues with the font index and has
       the same effect as the option --max-fonts to luaotfload-tools.

       The scan-local flag, if set, will incorporate the current  working  directory  as  a  font
       search  location.  NB:  This will potentially slow down document processing because a font
       index with local fonts will not be  saved  to  disk,  so  these  fonts  will  have  to  be
       re-indexed whenever the document is built.

       The  skip-read  flag is only useful for debugging: It makes Luaotfload skip reading fonts.
       The font information for rebuilding the index is taken from the presently existing one.

       Unsetting the strip flag prevents Luaotfload from removing data from  the  index  that  is
       only  useful when processing font files. NB: this can increase the size of the index files
       significantly and has no effect on the runtime behavior.

       If update-live is set, Luaotfload will reload the database if it cannot find  a  requested
       font.  Those  who  prefer to update manually using luaotfload-tool should unset this flag.
       This option does not affect rebuilds due to version mismatch.

   Section default-features
       By default Luaotfload enables node mode and picks  the  default  font  features  that  are
       prescribed   in   the   OpenType   standard.  This  behavior  may  be  overridden  in  the
       default-features section. Global defaults that will be applied for all scripts can be  set
       via  the  global  option,  others  by the script they are to be applied to. For example, a
       setting of

          [default-features]
              global = mode=base,color=0000FF
              dflt   = smcp,onum

       would force base mode, tint all fonts blue and activate small capitals  and  text  figures
       globally.  Features are specified as a comma separated list of variables or variable-value
       pairs. Variables without an explicit value are set to true.

   Section misc
                               ┌───────────┬──────┬──────────────────────┐
                               │variable   │ type │ default              │
                               ├───────────┼──────┼──────────────────────┤
                               │statistics │ b    │ false                │
                               ├───────────┼──────┼──────────────────────┤
                               │termwidth  │ n    │ nil                  │
                               ├───────────┼──────┼──────────────────────┤
                               │version    │ s    │ <Luaotfload version> │
                               ├───────────┼──────┼──────────────────────┤
                               │keepnames  │ b    │ true                 │
                               └───────────┴──────┴──────────────────────┘

       With statistics enabled, extra statistics will be  collected  during  index  creation  and
       appended  to the index file. It may then be queried at the Lua end or inspected by reading
       the file itself.

       The value of termwidth, if set, overrides the value retrieved by querying  the  properties
       of  the terminal in which Luatex runs. This is useful if the engine runs with shell_escape
       disabled and the actual terminal dimensions cannot be retrieved.

       The value of version is derived from the  version  string  hard-coded  in  the  Luaotfload
       source. Override at your own risk.

       The  keepnames  option  decides  if  the ConTeXt fontloader should keep names it considers
       useless or if they should be discarded. This option only takes effect  after  font  caches
       are regenererated.

   Section paths
                         ┌─────────────┬──────┬───────────────────────────────┐
                         │variable     │ type │ default                       │
                         ├─────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────────────┤
                         │cache-dir    │ s    │ "fonts"                       │
                         ├─────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────────────┤
                         │names-dir    │ s    │ "names"                       │
                         ├─────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────────────┤
                         │index-file   │ s    │ "luaotfload-names.lua"        │
                         ├─────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────────────┤
                         │lookups-file │ s    │ "luaotfload-lookup-cache.lua" │
                         └─────────────┴──────┴───────────────────────────────┘

       The paths cache-dir and names-dir determine the subdirectory inside the Luaotfload subtree
       of  the  luatex-cache  directory  where  the font cache and the font index will be stored,
       respectively.

       Inside the index directory, the names of the index file and the font lookup cache will  be
       derived  from  the  respective values of index-file and lookups-file. This is the filename
       base for the bytecode compiled version as well as -- for the index -- the gzipped version.

   Section run
                           ┌───────────────┬──────┬─────────────────────────┐
                           │variable       │ type │ default                 │
                           ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
                           │anon-sequence  │ s    │ "tex,path,name"         │
                           ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
                           │color-callback │ s    │ "post_linebreak_filter" │
                           ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
                           │definer        │ s    │ "patch"                 │
                           ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
                           │log-level      │ n    │ 0                       │
                           ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
                           │resolver       │ s    │ "cached"                │
                           ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────┤
                           │fontloader     │ s    │ "default"               │
                           └───────────────┴──────┴─────────────────────────┘

       Unqualified font lookups  are  treated  with  the  flexible  “anonymous”  mechanism.  This
       involves  a  chain  of lookups applied successively until the first one yields a match. By
       default, the lookup will first search for TFM fonts using the Kpathsea  library.  If  this
       wasn’t  successful,  an  attempt  is  made at interpreting the request as an absolute path
       (like the [/path/to/font/foo.ttf] syntax) or a  file  name  (file:foo.ttf).  Finally,  the
       request  is  interpreted  as  a font name and retrieved from the index (name:Foo Regular).
       This behavior can be configured by specifying  a  list  as  the  value  to  anon-sequence.
       Available  items  are  tex,  path,  name  --  representing  the  lookups  described above,
       respectively --, and file for searching a filename but not  an  absolute  path.  Also,  my
       lookups  are  valid values but they should only be used from within TeX documents, because
       there is no means of customizing a my lookups on the command line.

       The color-callback option determines  the  stage  at  which  fonts  that  defined  with  a
       color=xxyyzz feature will be colorized. By default this happens in a post_linebreak_filter
       but alternatively the pre_linebreak_filter or pre_output_filter may be  chosen,  which  is
       faster but might produce inconsistent output. The pre_output_filter used to be the default
       in the 1.x series of Luaotfload, whilst later versions up to and including 2.5 hooked into
       the  pre_linebreak_filter  which  naturally  didn’t  affect  any  glyphs  inserting during
       hyphenation. Both are  kept  around  as  options  to  restore  the  previous  behavior  if
       necessary.

       The  definer  allows for switching the define_font callback.  Apart from the default patch
       one may also choose the generic one that comes with the vanilla  fontloader.  Beware  that
       this  might  break  tools  like  Fontspec that rely on the patch_font callback provided by
       Luaotfload to perform important corrections on font data.

       The fontloader backend can be selected by  setting  the  value  of  fontloader.  The  most
       important  choices  are  default, which will load the dedicated Luaotfload fontloader, and
       reference, the upstream package as shipped with Luaotfload. Other than those, a file  name
       accessible via kpathsea can be specified.

       Alternatively, the individual files that constitute the fontloader can be loaded directly.
       While less efficient, this greatly aids debugging since error messages will reference  the
       actual  line  numbers  of  the  source  files  and  explanatory comments are not stripped.
       Currently, three distinct loading strategies are available: unpackaged will load the batch
       that  is  part  of  Luaotfload. These contain the identical source code that the reference
       fontloader has been compiled from.  Another option, context will attempt to load the  same
       files  by their names in the Context format from the search path. Consequently this option
       allows to use the version of Context that comes with the TeX distribution. Distros tend to
       prefer  the  stable  version  (“current” in Context jargon) of those files so certain bugs
       encountered in the more bleeding edge Luaotfload can be avoided this way. A  third  option
       is  to  use  context with a colon to specify a directory prefix where the TEXMF is located
       that the files should be loaded from, e. g.  context:~/context/tex/texmf-context. This can
       be  used when referencing another distribution like the Context minimals that is installed
       under a different path not indexed by kpathsea.

       The value of log-level sets the default verbosity of messages printed by Luaotfload.  Only
       messages  defined  with  a  verbosity  of less than or equal to the supplied value will be
       output on the terminal.  At a log level of  five  Luaotfload  can  be  very  noisy.  Also,
       printing  too  many  messages  will  slow down the interpreter due to line buffering being
       disabled (see setbuf(3)).

       The resolver setting allows choosing the font name resolution function: With  the  default
       value cached Luaotfload saves the result of a successful font name request to a cache file
       to speed up subsequent lookups. The alternative, normal circumvents the cache and resolves
       every  request  individually.  (Since  to  the  restructuring  of  the  font name index in
       Luaotfload 2.4 the performance difference between the cached and uncached  lookups  should
       be marginal.)

FILES

       Luaotfload  only processes the first configuration file it encounters at one of the search
       locations. The file name may be either luaotfload.conf or  luaotfloadrc,  except  for  the
       dotfile in the user’s home directory which is expected at ~/.luaotfloadrc.

       Configuration files are located following a series of steps. The search terminates as soon
       as a suitable file is encountered. The sequence of locations that Luaotfload looks at is

       i.   The current working directory of the LuaTeX process.

       ii.  The  subdirectory  luaotfload/   inside   the   XDG   configuration   tree,   e.   g.
            /home/oenothea/config/luaotfload/.

       iii. The dotfile.

       iv.  The TEXMF (using kpathsea).

SEE ALSO

       luaotfload-tool(1), luatex(1), lua(1)

       • texdoc luaotfload to display the PDF manual for the Luaotfload package

       • Luaotfload development https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload

       • LuaLaTeX mailing list  http://tug.org/pipermail/lualatex-dev/

       • LuaTeX                 http://luatex.org/

       • Luaotfload on CTAN     http://ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload

REFERENCES

       • The                      XDG                      base                     specification
         http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html.

AUTHORS

       Luaotfload was developed by the LuaLaTeX dev team  (https://github.com/lualatex/).  It  is
       currently maintained by the LaTeX Project Team at https://github.com/latex3/luaotfload

       This manual page was written by Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>.

COPYRIGHT

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