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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jonathan Kew wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:609edcb3-b0c7-7969-e25c-a538fde0a29b@gmail.com"><br>
IIRC (it's been a long time) quoting the name is not an absolute
switch; it's treated as a hint to look first for a system font by
that name, and only fall back to trying it as a TFM name if not
found.
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Ah, had not realised that ...<br>
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cite="mid:609edcb3-b0c7-7969-e25c-a538fde0a29b@gmail.com">I
haven't tried it, but my impression is that setting
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MKTEXTFM = 0
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in texmf.cnf (or maybe as an environment variable? not sure...)
should disable the attempt to automatically create missing TFMs,
which is what is happening here.<br>
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OK, many thanks, will try that. In the meantime I tried "XeTeX
--help" and found amongst the output the following :<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">[-no]-mktex=FMT disable/enable
mktexFMT generation (FMT=tex/tfm)</blockquote>
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so that may be an alternative, and one which I can implement in
TeXworks configuration interface (always easier than trying to work
out exactly <i>which </i>version of "texmf.cnf" I should edit !).
Unfortunately my colleague has logged back in in the meantime, so I
will need to wait a while to test.<br>
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Incidentally, I know that you (Jonathan) are no longer actively
maintaining XeTeX, but may I ask whether you consider it would be
(relatively) straightforward to extend the syntax of the "color"
attribute of the "\font" command to accept colour models rather than
assume (and accept) only RGB expressed as six hex digits ? I ask
because I find that whereas Fileprint.org handle my RGB fonts OK, my
local printing company do not, and it would be helpful to be sure
that I am generating CMYK font calls rather than RGB. In my last
print job, which I have had to send off to Fileprint because the
local results were so bad, all emboldening was lost and my deep red
and deep green (220000 & 002200) came out virtually black :-(<br>
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** Phil.<br>
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