[XeTeX] defining fonts in plain TeX files

[Brian]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

>> If I use \font\normaltext="Times Roman", if fails, saying it can't
>> find the file.
>
> Could we please see the actual .log output this produces, including
> the error message about the font? Unless you have uninstalled Times
> Roman on your Mac, I'd have expected this to work.

I haven't uninstalled anything.

Here is the entire log output:

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
\write18 enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./master-book-tex.tex (./environment-tex.tex)kpathsea: Illegal  
fontname `Times Roman': contains ' '

! Font \normaltext="Times Roman" not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.
<to be read again>
                    \relax
<to be read again>
                    \input
l.5 \input
            macro-tex
?
(./macro-tex.tex) (./intro.tex) [1{/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ 
fonts/map/
pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] )</usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ 
fonts/type1
/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on master-book-tex.pdf (2 pages, 9785 bytes).
Transcript written on master-book-tex.log.


Brian