[XeTeX] Font names that result in errors

Jonathan Kew jonathan at jfkew.plus.com
Fri Jan 30 19:46:12 CET 2009


On 30 Jan 2009, at 16:38, Pander wrote:

> Pander wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have found two fontnames that result in an error with XeLaTeX on an
>> Ubuntu system. These are:
>>
>> \fontspec{API PHONÉTIQUE}
>
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-linex/apiregul.ttf of the ttf-linex  
> package
>
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \begin{document}
> \fontspec{API PHONÉTIQUE}Blah
> \end{document}

Looking at that font, the name is apparently "API  PHONÉTIQUE" (with  
two spaces). However, I would advise against using it, especially for  
phonetic data, as it does not encode the characters at their proper  
Unicode codepoints.

JK



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