[XeTeX] Fwd: Re: [texhax] Defining a new font in Plain Tex

[John Was]

Dear Paul

You seem not to have enclosed "Optima" in quotation marks.  Does that solve 
it?

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip TAYLOR" <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk>
To: "XeTeX list" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:47 PM
Subject: [XeTeX] Fwd: Re: [texhax] Defining a new font in Plain Tex


>
> Paul Isambert wrote:
>
> > \font\bankgothic="Bank Gothic" at 10pt % If you want 10pt of course
>
> > If there are italic or bold variants, say:
>
> > \font\bankgothicit="Bank Gothic /I" at 10pt
> > \font\bankgothicbf="Bank Gothic /B" at 10pt
> > \font\bankgothicitbf="Bank Gothic /IB" at 10pt
>
> This appeared to be the most user-friendly introduction to XeTeX
> that I have yet seen, and for the first time I was tempted to
> try it.  Sadly my first attempt fell at the first fence :
>
>      \font \defaultfont = Optima at 20pt
>
> > kpathsea: Running mktextfm Optima
> >
> > The command name is H:\TeX\Live\2009\bin\win32\mktextfm
> >
> > kpathsea: Running mktexmf Optima.mf
> >
> > The command name is H:\TeX\Live\2009\bin\win32\mktexmf
> > name = Optima, rootname = Optima, pointsize =
> > mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile!
> > Cannot find Optima.mf.
>
> Fortunately my second attempt was more successful :
>
>     \font \defaultfont = "Palatino Linotype" at 20pt
>
> and I am now motivated to continue.  The obvious difference
> between Optima and Palatino Linotype is that the former
> is in Type-1 format whilst the latter is in Truetype; are
> there problems (surmountable or otherwise) associated with
> the use of Type-1 fonts with XeTeX ?
>
> Philip Taylor
>


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