[XeTeX] External font and xltxtra breaks \footnote in xelatex

[pi3orama]

I tried as your suggestion, and the problem is still exist.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Diederick C. Niehorster
<dcnieho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have no time for testing it now, but one thing you might try:
>
> xlxtra already loads fontspec and xunicode (in the right order) for
> you, you so don't need to load those separately. So try and see if
> only loading xlxtra solves the problem (see below).
>
> Best,
> Dee
>
> ----
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setmainfont[
> ExternalLocation={/home/wn/.fonts/},
> ]{TimesRoman.ttf}
> \begin{document}
> test\footnote{footnote}
> \end{document}
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:29 PM, pi3orama <pi3orama at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I use texlive 2009.
>>
>> If the main font is an external font, and xltxtra is loaded, the
>> latex's \footnote command will generate error. For example:
>>
>>
>> below tex file works well:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>> \usepackage{xunicode}
>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>> \setmainfont{Times Roman}
>> \begin{document}
>> test\footnote{footnote}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> And this one is OK (load external font and remove the xltxtra package)
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>> \usepackage{xunicode}
>> \setmainfont[
>> ExternalLocation={/home/xxxx/.fonts/},
>> ]{TimesRoman.ttf}
>> \begin{document}
>> test\footnote{footnote}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> But this one cause an error (both use xltxtra and external font):
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>> \usepackage{xunicode}
>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>> \setmainfont[
>> ExternalLocation={/home/wn/.fonts/},
>> ]{TimesRoman.ttf}
>> \begin{document}
>> test\footnote{footnote}
>> \end{document}
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> the error message is:
>>
>> ----------------------- message begin --------------------------
>> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd))
>> fontspec.cfg loaded.
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xltxtra/xltxtra.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/metalogo/metalogo.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetex-def/xetex.def))))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fixltx2e.sty))
>> (./test.aux)kpathsea: Invalid fontname `TimesRoman.ttf/ICU:', contains
>> ':'
>>
>> ! Font \zf at basefont=TimesRoman.ttf/ICU: at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) fi
>> le or installed font not found.
>> \realsuperscript  ...y \endcsname " at \f at size pt
>>                                                  \zf at set@font at type \ifzf at ic...
>> l.11 test\footnote{
>>                   footnote}
>> ?
>>
>> ----------------------- message end --------------------------
>>
>> I believe this should be an bug in xltxtra. But I know little about
>> low level tex and xetex so I am unable to fix it.
>>
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