[XeTeX] FontName/B seems to be broken

[Stephen Moye]

On Saturday, October 08, 2005, at 10:46AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

>On 8 Oct 2005, at 2:14 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I just installed XeTeX 0.95. When I typeset a document with this  
>> sort of font call:
>>
>> \font\rm="Minion Pro" at 9pt
>> \font\frac="Minion Pro:+frac" at 9pt \rm
>>     \baselineskip1.25em plus.1pt minus.05pt
>> \font\it="Minion Pro/I" at 9pt
>> \font\bf="Minion Pro/B" at 9pt
>> \font\bi="Minion Pro/BI" at 9pt
>> \font\head="Optima Bold" at 12pt
>> \font\headit="Optima Bold Italic" at 12pt
>>
>> all of the bold and italics etc went away, except for the Optima,  
>> of course, which was explicitly declared.
>>
>> Help! I need my italics!! ;>}
>
>Are you running Tiger, by any chance? I've noticed since updating to  
>10.4 that /B and /I sometimes seem to fail, when they were working  
>for me in the same documents under Panther. But they don't always  
>fail; I'm not sure yet quite what's going on.
>
>You can, of course, get your italics back by declaring the fonts  
>explicitly. :) But clearly there's a bug here that needs to be squashed.
>
>JK
>
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As Musa Furber pointed out, clearing the font cache solved the problem. The new Linotype FontExplorerX made that very easy.

SGM