[XeTeX] Concrete fonts

[José Carlos Santos]

On 08-06-2011 16:27, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

>>> The default font used by fontspec is latin modern, which is what you
>>> get. To change to another font, read the manual of fontspec (google it
>>> or use texdoc fontspec on the command line) which will show how to use
>>> it.
>
>> It says that I should use the command \setmainfont. But how do I
>> discover which name should I use to get the Concrete fonts? I tried
>> "Concrete", but I got an error message.
>
> You can look in the pfb or the afm of the font used by pdflatex (the
> font is mentioned at the end of the log). In general you can use the
> family name. In this case sform10 says:
>
> /FamilyName (Computer Modern Concrete) def
>
> So this works:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont{Computer Modern Concrete}
> \begin{document}
> Some text. öäü߀
> \end{document}
>
> Xetex can use type1 (pfb) fonts directly (without external tfm) but
> as some of them are very old it can happen that xetex doesn't like
> it, or gets some chars wrong or .... In general it is better to use
> open type fonts with xetex.
>
> Attention: If you have a font with the same name in otf and type1 it
> can happen that the tex->xdv step use the one font and the xdvipdfmx
> step (xdv->pdf) the other and than the output is wrong (I had this
> problem with the libertine fonts).

Thanks *a lot*.

Best regards,

José Carlos Santos