[XeTeX] Disable "mktextfm" and/or use of TFM-based fonts ?

[Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)]

On 08/06/2022 08:51, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Perhaps by setting MKTEXTFM = 0, but I never tried if xetex honors that. 

Yes, a great improvement thank you —

> D:\ XeTeX Font-error
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999994 (TeX Live 2022) 
> (preloaded format=xetex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./Font-error.tex [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
> ! Font \fnf= not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.
> <to be read again>
>                    \font
> l.441 \font \fnf  = \font
>                           \fb "Gill Sans MT" scaled 455
> ? s
> OK, entering \scrollmode...
> [10] [11] [12] )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Output written on Font-error.pdf (12 pages).
> Transcript written on Font-error.log.