[tex-live] Pb with Iwona font and realscripts

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Sep 24 18:35:57 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:28:24PM +0200, Daniel Flipo wrote:
> Will Robertson a écrit le 22/09/2010 15:40 :
> 
> >I can't reproduce this behaviour; the only change I made to the input file was
> >
> >\setmainfont{Iwona-Regular.otf}
> >
> >instead to load the font from the texmf tree.
> >At the end of your log file is written:
> 
> Thanks Will, adding ".otf" also works for me :-)
> 
> Following your hint:
> 
> >You can debug such problems by running XeTeX with the -no-pdf option, then convert the xdv with the -vv flag to see what's going wrong. I don't have much experience with this; perhaps the XeTeX mailing list will be able to provide more information from here.
> 
> I find out that the type1 file "iwonar.pfb" is used instead of
> "Iwona-Regular.otf" :-(  I thought xdvipdfmx would search first for
> OpenType font, then for type1 fonts only if no OpenType font was
> found...  I'll add the .otf suffixe everytime to be sure of what
> happens.

But this way you have to also set italic, bold and other variants
manually, or else you will be getting upright for every thing.


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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