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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/source/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.conf.rst b/Master/texmf-dist/source/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.conf.rst
index d624e00f729..e7cbccba4a6 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/source/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.conf.rst
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/source/luatex/luaotfload/luaotfload.conf.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
Luaotfload configuration file
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-:Date: 2015-12-09
+:Date: 2016-04-21
:Copyright: GPL v2.0
-:Version: 2.6
+:Version: 2.7
:Manual section: 5
:Manual group: text processing
@@ -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,
@@ -126,23 +125,25 @@ the variable is unset.
Section ``db``
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| variable | type | default |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| compress | b | ``true`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| formats | s | ``"otf,ttf,ttc,dfont"`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| max-fonts | n | ``2^51`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| scan-local | b | ``false`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| skip-read | b | ``false`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| strip | b | ``true`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| update-live | b | ``true`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| variable | type | default |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| compress | b | ``true`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| 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`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| use-fontforge | b | ``false`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
The flag ``compress`` determines whether the font index (usually
``luaotfload-names.lua[.gz]`` will be stored in compressed forms.
@@ -155,15 +156,13 @@ 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),
-* ``dfont`` (Macintosh TrueType format),
+* ``ttf`` and ``ttc`` (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
@@ -189,6 +188,10 @@ 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.
+The option ``use-fontforge`` switches name scanning back to the old
+method that relies on the builtin ``fontloader`` library. This is
+interesting for reference until the Fontforge code will be removed
+eventually.
Section ``default-features``
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -293,7 +296,7 @@ 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 Fontspect that rely on the ``patch_font`` callback
+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
@@ -381,6 +384,5 @@ AUTHORS
*Luaotfload* is maintained by the LuaLaTeX dev team
(`<https://github.com/lualatex/>`_).
-This manual page was written by Philipp Gesang
-<philipp.gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>.
+This manual page was written by Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>.