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<p>Using XeTeX as my only TeX typesetting engine, I also use only
OTF/TTF fonts. After a faulty copy-and-paste, I found that I had
inadvertently written :</p>
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<blockquote type="cite"><tt>\font \fnf = \font \fb "Gill Sans MT"
scaled 400</tt></blockquote>
which led to the unexpected diagnostic :</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">Usage: mktextfm [--destdir destdir] name
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">! Font
\fnf= not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not
found.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><to
be read again> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> \font
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">l.441
\font \fnf = \font</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> \fb
"Gill Sans MT" scaled 400</p>
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As I <i>never</i> want XeTeX to attempt to create a
seemingly-missing TFM file, can I configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks
to inhibit this undesired behaviour ? And for that matter, can I
configure XeTeX and/or TeXworks to inhibit any attempt to use
TFM-based fonts ?<br>
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<p>-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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