[XeTeX] Bug in fontspec's \newfontfamily?

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Sat May 23 18:12:42 CEST 2009


Am 23.05.2009 um 17:07 schrieb David Perry:

> The fontspec docs do not say that a shorthand name is required with  
> the \newfontfamily and \newfontface commands


To me

	This macro should be used to create commands that would be used in  
the same way as \rmfamily, for example.

(centre of page 5 of the fontspec manual) is quite clear,  
\newfontfamily and \newfontface create named macros to be used later  
(after definition). And repeatedly.

These commands seem to use free font descriptors from the format. And  
they don't or can't reuse them even when they are using the same  
parameters. So the pool of free font descriptors can get used up even  
in a simple file.

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