Options for pairing Concrete Roman with a .ttf font

[Jim Hefferon]

Will,

I ran the file on a machine I am using for testing.  It has a clean install
of Ubuntu 20, with the apt-installed TeX LIve.  The command "xelatex try"
worked and generated these files.

    http://joshua.smcvt.edu/wr/try.pdf
    http://joshua.smcvt.edu/wr/try.log
    http://joshua.smcvt.edu/wr/try.aux

Thanks,
Jim

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:28 PM Will Robertson <will at wspr.io> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
>
> I don’t have an up-to-date installation to test with on this machine and I
> can see there may be some interactions between newer LaTeX2e code and
> fontspec that I need to take into account. I can also see I need to add an
> interface to change the default encoding for different font families. With
> that being said, does the example document below appear to work for you?
>
> It’s a bit fragile in terms of loading order and needing that initial
> \rmfamily. Once we have an example that I can work towards I can try to
> improve the fontspec behaviour...
>
> Many thanks,
> Will
>
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage{concmath}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
>
> \renewcommand\rmdefault{ccr}
> \ExplSyntaxOn
> \tl_set:Nn \l__fontspec_rmfamily_encoding_tl {OT1}
> \tl_set:Nn \l__fontspec_sffamily_encoding_tl {TU}
> \ExplSyntaxOff
> \setsansfont{texgyreheros-regular.otf}
>
> \begin{document}
> \rmfamily hello world
>
> \sffamily sans font
>
> \rmfamily main font
> \end{document}
>
>
> > On 21 Sep 2021, at 1:58 am, Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net> wrote:
> >
> > WR> From: Will Robertson <will at wspr.io>
> > WR> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:36:18 +0930
> >
> >
> > WR> Nothing has changed recently (I am quite sad that I haven’t been
> > WR> able to do new releases on my latex packages for some years
> > WR> now). You just need to load fontenc first with the necessary
> > WR> encodings and be careful about explicitly setting the encoding you
> > WR> want for each font you select. Note that fontspec patches commands
> > WR> like \rmfamily to include the encoding selection and it’s possible
> > WR> that I have neglected to add a command to change/customise this…
> >
> > I might be a change in the fontenc package:  looks like now loading it
> > before fontspec does not change the behaviour.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Good luck
> >
> > -Boris
> >
> > Not that I have anything much against redundancy.  But I said that
> already.
> >               -- Larry Wall in <199702271735.JAA04048 at wall.org>
>
>

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