[XeTeX] missing everything

[Martin Henning]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 16 Jan 2006, at 12:43 pm, Yves Codet wrote:

>> I recently upgraded to XeTeX 0.99b and in a document which I had  
>> started writing before I upgraded italics don't appear anymore (a  
>> sample file is attached below). There is a message I don't  
>> understand in the .log file:
>> 	LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `U/CharisSIL/m/sl' undefined
>> 	(Font)              using `U/CharisSIL/m/n' instead on input line  
>> 27.
>> I didn't ask for slanted letters.

i just upgraded, too, now my document is more or less completely  
broken....

i'm using:

\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[%
		Numbers=Lining,%
		ItalicFont={Charis SIL Italic},%
		BoldFont={Charis SIL Bold},
		BoldItalicFont={Charis SIL Bold Italic}%
		]%
		{Charis SIL}
\setsansfont[Scale=1.01]{Lucida Grande}
\setmonofont[Scale=0.90]{Monaco}

and get:

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T2A/CharisSIL+map:tex-text 
+lnumit:CharisSILItal
icbf:CharisSILBoldbfit:CharisSILBoldItalic/m/n' undefined
(Font)              using `T2A/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 14.

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T2A/LucidaGrande+map:tex-text+scale: 
1.01/m/n' u
ndefined
(Font)              using `T2A/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 22.

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T2A/LucidaGrande+map:tex-text+scale: 
1.01/bx/n'
undefined
(Font)              using `T2A/LucidaGrande+map:tex-text+scale:1.01/m/ 
n' instea
d on input line 22.

and so on...

Is it a bug or is it me? Before upgrade it worked, but i also changed  
the languages in my tetex-installation for correct use of babel with  
russian, as suggested by bruno in another thread. using a KOMA-class,  
yet after selecting russian language, everything appears (for the  
first time) correctly in russian. seems to me it is not a bug in  
Charis, because i get it for all my fonts...

in console.log i get:

Jan 19 01:21:50 tigabook xdv2pdf: WARNING: Type1 font data returned  
by OFAStreamPSDownload isn't in the correct format required by the  
Adobe Type 1 Font Format specification.

after each run of xelatex... which, frankly speaking, doesn't tell me  
anything :)

maybe one of you knows what this should tell me?

greetings,

martin






> I think this is happening because of a bug in the current beta of  
> the Charis SIL fonts: what's happening is that the Regular font  
> reports itself, in certain ways, as being italic; which then means  
> that XeTeX doesn't find a separate "more italic" face to go with  
> it; and then LaTeX attempts to fall back to slanted instead. Or  
> something along those lines. Oh, and it fools fontspec's \emph  
> code, I expect.
>
> Ironically, it probably used to work OK because XeTeX was sloppier  
> about finding styled fonts -- now that it is more careful, the bug  
> in Charis is causing it to fail!
>
> This should be fixed in the next Charis release, coming soon....
>
> (Meanwhile, if you try \setromanfont{Gentium} instead, you should  
> see italics where you expect them.)
>
>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Yves
>>
>> P.S. Is the hyphenation issue being solved?
>
> I've fixed one issue in the code for 0.991, at least; I'm not  
> completely sure if this is the only problem, but it seems to be  
> working for me. I hope to find time to finish and release 0.991  
> fairly soon, but email me if you'd like to hand-install and try an  
> interim version to see if it solves the Greek issue for you.
>
> JK
>
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