<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Philip</div><div><br></div><div>I've sometimes encountered inexplicable behaviour like this, and if there's the slightest hint of a problem with plain XeTeX locating and loading a font in a particular way, I load it directly from the font file itself, e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div>\font\ffthornreight="[D:/BACKUPS/FONTBKUP/EHRHARDT/FFTHORN/FFThorn-Regular_2.otf]" scaled 720</div><div><br></div><div>Everything in front of
FFThorn-Regular_2.otf (the font file) is of course the location of the font on my data drive - just substitute your own directory tree for the fonts you want to load this way.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps. It's not a TeX Wizard solution, obviously, but if all you want to do is get on with the typesetting it works!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John
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</div><div><br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 11:45, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Using XeTeX as my only TeX typesetting engine, I also use only
OTF/TTF fonts. After a faulty copy-and-paste, I found that I had
inadvertently written :</p>
<p>
</p><blockquote type="cite"><tt>\font \fnf = \font \fb "Gill Sans MT"
scaled 400</tt></blockquote>
which led to the unexpected diagnostic :<p></p>
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</p><blockquote type="cite">Usage: mktextfm [--destdir destdir] name
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">! Font
\fnf= not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not
found.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><to
be read again> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"> \font
</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">l.441
\font \fnf = \font</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"> \fb
"Gill Sans MT" scaled 400</p>
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As I <i>never</i> want XeTeX to attempt to create a
seemingly-missing TFM file, can I configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks
to inhibit this undesired behaviour ? And for that matter, can I
configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks to inhibit any attempt to use
TFM-based fonts ?<br>
<p></p>
<p>-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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