[tex-live] TeX Gyre in XeLaTeX on Linux

[Will Robertson]

On 03/11/2009, at 10:01 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

> how do I instruct XeLaTeX to use TeX Gyre fonts? kpsewhich finds them
> and otfinfo can show their properties:


If kpsewhich can find them, you'll always be able to load them with

\setmainfont
   [
     ExternalLocation,
     BoldFont=texgyrepagella-bold.otf,
     ...
   ]
   {texgyrepagella-regular.otf}

I want to add a feature so that any font name argument that ends  
with .otf and .ttf gets "ExternalLocation" automatically. Hasn't quite  
happened yet.

Because this will be the only way to load OpenType fonts in LuaLaTeX,  
I'm considering adding a registry of font names to map "TeX Gyre  
Pagella" to something like the above. (Especially so the bold/italic  
fonts don't need to be explicitly selected.)

Funnily enough, that could even be useful in pdfLaTeX in order to load  
tfm-based fonts with "normal" font names. I just never got around to  
doing it, since at the time it didn't seem worth the effort (given the  
relatively few number of TeX fonts around and the well-known ways to  
use them anyway).

-- Will