[XeTeX] where to put woff files

[Zdenek Wagner]

2017-04-06 15:31 GMT+02:00 Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>:
> Am Thu, 6 Apr 2017 07:10:06 -0600 schrieb Bobby de Vos:
>
>> On 2017-04-06 02:39, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>>> On the whole I would agree with the debian answer: applications like
>>> xetex/xdvipdfmx shouldn't try to use fonts it can't handle.
>>
>> Thank you for your response. I will file a bug with Debian at some point.
>
> Why Debian? I meant it is more a xetex problem so I would add a bug
> report there.
>
This is certainly not a Debian bug, the font is installed as it should be.
The problem is that it is not supported by XeTeX/xdvipdfmx and it is a question
what XeTeX should do if fontconfig offers an unsupported font
>
>
>>> And xetex users shold avoid "vage" font loading by adding the
>>> extension if possible.
>
>> How do I specify the extension? If I am using plain XeTeX and have a
>> line such as
>>
>> \font\bodyfont="Andika New Basic/GR" at 12pt
>>
>> where do I put the extension? I can place the font name in brackets [],
>> and include the extension, but then I need to supply the entire path to
>> the font file.
>
> You don't need the full path. This here works fine for me (arial is
> a system font and the other is in the texmf tree):
>
> \font\test="[arial.ttf]:color=FF0000;mapping=tex-text" at 20pt
> \test
> alblbl ---
>
> \font\test="[texgyrecursor-regular.otf]:color=00FF00" at 20pt
> \test
> alblbl ---
>
> But you won't be able to use font options like /GR (at least that's
> what xetexref says).
>
>
Zdeněk Wagner
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