[XeTeX] Unable to use XeLaTeX correctly upon TexLive2008 Install

[Alan Jones]

Hi Wilfred:

Thanks for your reply. The problem I had was that in /usr/local/share/fonts,
I had Officina as a TTF and a OTF file, I removed the TTF file and I get
correct results, ie the same font ini two different formats.

Thanks for your help,

Kind Regards,
Alan

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Wilfred van Rooijen
<wvanrooijen at yahoo.com>wrote:

> But what do you mean by "it does work and does not work"? If it used to
> work, then it should still work ;-)). Can you send some more info about what
> goes wrong and where, and  maybe an example input file?
>
> Wilfred
>
> --- On *Sat, 10/7/10, Alan Jones <ajones394 at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Alan Jones <ajones394 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Unable to use XeLaTeX correctly upon TexLive2008
> Install
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Saturday, 10 July, 2010, 12:52 AM
>
>
> Hi Wilfred Thanks:
>
> It works and it does not work on several fonts for me. I have been using
>
> otfinfo -a fontname.otf
>
> and
> otfinfo -p fontname.otf
>
> to get the font name for setting /fontspec command.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Alan
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooijen at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=wvanrooijen@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The error indicates that the particular font is not found as part of the
>> system-wide fonts. Then, xelatex tries to generate the font in the
>> old-fashioned way, and this fails. This means that you are using the wrong
>> name in the \fontspec command. On Linux, do:
>>
>> 1. run "fc-cache -fv"
>>
>> This will regenerate the cache of system-wide fonts. You should see your
>> font directory in the output. If not, that means that the font directory is
>> skipped. In that case, you need to instruct fc-cache to include your
>> directory in the font cache.
>>
>> 2. run "fc-list"
>>
>> This gives a list of all recognized fonts as cached by fc-cache. Note that
>> the name given in this list is the name you should use in the \fontspec
>> command. The name in the font cache may be different from the filename of
>> the corresponding OTF file.
>>
>> The OTF fonts have several "identification strings", which may or may not
>> be the same as the filename. If you really cannot get xelatex to recognize
>> the font name, you can open the OTF file in fontconfig and look for the
>> identification strings and try which one is correct to load the font.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Wilfred
>>
>>
>>
>>
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