[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX Fonts with fontspec-package

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Today i figured out how to use system-installed-fonts with the fontspec-package and LuaLaTeX. But i can't figure out how to use fonts, that are installed in my texmf-tree!

The fontspec-Manual says (p. 10), that LuaLaTeX will see fonts installed in my texmf-tree and i can enter the name via a human readable-string (eg. Latin Modern Roman) or the filename (eg. ec-lmr10.tmf).

Even though i have confirmed that this file (and hence the font) is installed on my system in my texmf-tree, i can't get it to compile! I always get a

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
!
! The font "ec-lmr10.tfm" cannot be found.
!
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
!
! For immediate help type H <return>.
!...............................................

l.13 \setmainfont{ec-lmr10.tfm}

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Am i getting something wrong?
How can i use LaTeX-fonts with fontspec and LuaLaTeX?

Best Answer

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
foo
\end{document}

running with current lualatex from TeXLive creates a document with the icluded Latin Modern:

$ pdffonts zzz2.pdf 
name                      type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------- ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- 
NAGORB+LMRoman10-Regular  CID Type 0C       Identity-H       yes yes yes      4  0

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This improves Caramdir's answer to make the table easier to read:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Mono Light}

\usepackage{luacode}

\usepackage[margin=18mm]{geometry}
\parindent=0pt

\usepackage{longtable,makecell}
\renewcommand\arraystretch{2}

\begin{document}
\begin{luacode}
myfonts=dofile(fonts.names.path.localdir..'/otfl-names.lua') -- TeX Live 2012 or earlier
-- myfonts=dofile(fonts.names.path.path) -- TeX Live 2013
teststring = "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow."

tex.print("\\begin{longtable}{ll}\\hline")

for i,v in ipairs(myfonts.mappings) do
  -- Stop early for testing purposes.
  if i > 20 then break end

  tex.print('\\makecell[l]{\\bfseries')
  tex.print(-2, v.familyname)
  tex.print('\\\\[-1ex] \\scriptsize')
  tex.print(-2, v.fontname)
  tex.print('} & \\LARGE\\fontspec{' .. v.fontname .. '}')
  tex.print(-2, teststring)
  tex.print('\\\\ \\hline')
end
tex.print("\\end{longtable}")
\end{luacode}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] fontspec (xelatex) finding fonts by name, installed or in TEXMFHOME

Short answer, Yes.

When XeTeX is asked to load a font by its file name, it passes the name to kpathea library, so this works like any other TeX file path searching (e.g. \input’d files).

When it is asked to load a font by font name, it will use FontConfig on Linux and Windows, and Core Text font manager on Mac, so whatever fonts they can find, XeTeX will be able to use.

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