[XeTeX] math in XeLaTeX at 11pt or 12pt

[Ross Moore]

Hi Jonathan,

The simplest of LaTeX files ...

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
$
  a
$
  \end{document}

fails on the mathematics, with an error:

! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.
l.7 $



Here's the full log-file:

[GlenLivet:~/Documents/tests] rossmoor% xelatex xtest.tex
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.5 (Web2C 7.5.2)
  %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./xtest.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (./xtest.aux)
! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.
l.7 $


Tracing with  \tracingall  reveals nothing untoward at that point.

The error goes away upon changing the initial font-size from  12pt
to  TeX's default of  10pt.    At  11pt  the error remains.

Using
     xelatex -kpathsea-debug=-1 xtest.tex
I cannot recognise anything that indicates a problem.


Needless to say, there is no such problem when using
other engines:   latex, pdflatex, elatex



The message is compiled into TeX engines:

[GlenLivet:~/Documents/tests] rossmoor% strings `kpsewhich tex.pool` | 
grep Insuff
47Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts
50Math formula deleted: Insufficient extension fonts

which sort of explains why tracing doesn't help.


All the best,

	Ross


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