[tex-live] Cannot typeset a greek text in XeTeX using the Greek Font Society fonts in texlive 2009

[Will Robertson]

On 26/09/2009, at 4:08 AM, Christos Gitsis wrote:

> I cannot typeset a greek text in XeTeX using the Greek Font Society  
> fonts in texlive 2009. The fonts are not found by xelatex.
>
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{GFS Didot}

This is the syntax to load fonts that are installed in the operating  
system. TeX Live does not install fonts in this way, simply making the  
fonts available to users if they wish to use them. XeTeX allows you to  
load fonts in the texmf tree with the following fontspec syntax: (note  
that the bold/italic shapes are not automatically detected)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[ExternalLocation,
     ItalicFont=GFSDidotItalic.otf,
     BoldFont=GFSDidotBold.otf,
     BoldItalicFont=GFSDidotBoldItalic.otf
   ]{GFSDidot.otf}
\begin{document}
test \emph{test} \textbf{test \emph{test}}
\end{document}

Hope this helps,
Will