[XeTeX] Mapping inside font definition
Jonathan Kew
jonathan at jfkew.plus.com
Sun Sep 7 10:41:11 CEST 2008
On 7 Sep 2008, at 6:06 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 07/09/2008, at 3:48 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> fontspec will not complain (it doesn't know), but xetex will give a
>> warning message in the .log file if it can't find a requested mapping
>> file.
>
> Maybe it should.
> But TeX Live doesn't find the file:
>
> \IfFileExists{tex-text.tec}{YES}{NO}
>
> always evaluates to NO.
> So I guess there's nothing to be done.
That's because \IfFileExists is relying on the kpse search paths
for .tex input files, but the font mappings are elsewhere in the texmf
tree (under texmf/fonts/misc or something....). If you have the .tec
mapping in the current directory, it'll say YES. But that doesn't help
you in general.
JK
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