[XeTeX] Font names that result in errors

[Pander]

Thanks all for the help.

I have confirmed that both 'API  PHONÉTIQUE' and 'IPA  PHONETICS' are
not working with XeTeX. First of all because the double space is reduced
to a signle space when searching the font. This is a bug in XeTeX, I
think and should be fixed. What is you opinion about this?

That the fonts themselves are a bit broken and should not be used is a
second issue, but is outside of XeTeX, see
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-linex when some one would like
to report a fix. I couldn't get them working with the PostScript.

Regards,

Pander


Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Am 30.01.2009 um 17:38 schrieb Pander:
> 
>> Pander wrote:
>>> I have found two fontnames that result in an error with XeLaTeX on an
>>> Ubuntu system. These are:
>>>
>>> \fontspec{API PHONÉTIQUE}
>> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-linex/apiregul.ttf of the ttf-linex package
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \begin{document}
>> \fontspec{API PHONÉTIQUE}Blah
>> \end{document}
>> kpathsea: Illegal fontname `API PHONÉTIQUE': contains ' '
>> ! Font \zf at basefont="API PHONÉTIQUE" at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric
>> (TFM) file
>> or installed font not found.
> 
> In many cases XeTeX prefers the so-called Postscript name. You can find
> out about that with running otfinfo on the font, like that:
> 
> hermeneut:~ joachim$ otfinfo -i Downloads/ttf-linex-2.2.orig/apiregul.ttf 
> Family:              API  PHON…TIQUE
> Subfamily:           Regular
> Full name:           API  PHON…TIQUE
> PostScript name:     APIPHONTIQUE
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Preferred family:    API  PHON…TIQUE
> Preferred subfamily: Regular
> Mac font menu name:  API  PHON…TIQUE
> Version:             Version 1.0; 2003; initial release
> Unique ID:           Juan JosÈ Marcos. API  PHON…TIQUE: 2003
> [etc., shortened here]
> 
> But unfortunately, XeTeX has problems with this font anyway, changing
> the fontname in your example produces another error message:
> 
> ** ERROR ** Cannot proceed without the "native" font: APIPHONTIQUE (API
>  PHON…TIQUE Regular)...
> Output file removed.
> 
> So I think this font is broken in some way.
> 
>>> and
>>> \fontspec{cmr10}
>> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/latex-xft-fonts/cmr10.ttf of package
>> latex-xft-fonts
> 
> Use the Latin Modern fonts, which come in OTF format too.
> 
> Joachim
> 
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