[XeTeX] Linux Libertine

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Nov 29 16:37:56 CET 2012


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:17:02PM +0000, Arash Zeini wrote:
> On 28 November 2012 00:03, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have TL2012 from svn installed and do not have bold italics in the test
> > file.   After you update the font caches, you can see which files are used:
> >
> > $ fc-list -v  Linux\ Libertine\ O | grep file
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RBI.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_R.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RZI.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RZ.otf"(s)
> >     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RB.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RZI.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RZI.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RB.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RBI.otf"(s)
> >     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RZ.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RI.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_R.otf"(s)
> >     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_R.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RBI.otf"(s)
> >     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RI.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RZ.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RI.otf"(s)
> >     file:
> > "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RB.otf"(s)
> >
> > so there are some potential conflicts with the distro (Ubuntu 12.04) fonts,
> > but only otf fonts.
> > If I add the type1 font directories to my ~/.fonts.conf and update the
> > caches, I do see the
> > bold italic, and there are type1 fonts in the fc-list -v output.
> 
> I am working on a newish computer and have never installed Linux
> Libertine via apt or KDE's font installer. Whatever I have, came with
> TexLive 2012. This morning tlmgr updated libertine and auto-removed
> libertineotf and with it "Linux Libertine O". XeLaTeX now complains
> that 'The font "Linux Libertine O" cannot be found'. So that solves
> the problem for now :) Accordingly, fc-list -v  Linux\ Libertine\ O |
> grep file, returns no results, even after restoring libertineotf.

The "Linux Libertine O" fonts were changed by mistake to "Linux
Libertine T" (something was intended only for Type1 fonts to mitigate
the original issue but propagated to the OpenType fonts), it should be
fixed in next TeX Live update.

Also development version of XeTeX now prefers TrueType/openType over
Type1 when using FontConfig, so the original issue is fixed (though it
won't help immediately, but should eliminate the root issue in the
future).

Regards,
 Khaled


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