XeTex & Mara Font

XeTex & Mara Font

[Bart C. Wise]

I am currently trying to get the mara font loaded into XeTeX.  Here's some 
information about the font (via fontforge):
file: marafont.ttf
Fontname: MaraFontNFPlain:
Family Name: MaraFontNF Plain:
(yes, the colons are in the name)

I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family name, both 
with and without the ending semi-colons; however, it fails at compile time.

Here's some sample code:
\definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNF Plain]

\starttext
\startfont[Mara]
This is a test.
\stoptext


Here's the relevant output from the log file, which looks very similar to the 
output of a font that works:
! Font \**\thedefinedfont**:=Mara at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or 
installed font not found.                                                      
<to be read again>                                                             
                   \relax                                                      
\dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier                              
                                                  \let 
\localrelativefontsiz...

\redodefinefont #1#2#3->\dododefinefont {#1}{#2}
                                                \doifsetupselse {#3} 
{\setup...

\dodefinedfont ...ring \thedefinedfont \endcsname 
                                                  \the \everydefinedfont 
l.7 \startfont[Mara]                                                     
                                                                         
?                                                                        
! Emergency stop.                                                        
<to be read again>                                                       
                   \relax                                                
\dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier
                                                  \let 
\localrelativefontsiz...

\redodefinefont #1#2#3->\dododefinefont {#1}{#2}
                                                \doifsetupselse {#3} 
{\setup...

\dodefinedfont ...ring \thedefinedfont \endcsname
                                                  \the \everydefinedfont
l.7 \startfont[Mara]

End of file on the terminal!



How do I get the font loaded?

Thanks,
Bart
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family name, both 
> with and without the ending semi-colons; however, it fails at compile time.

  Have you tried prepending "name:" to the font name, like I explained
yesterday?

	Arthur
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Bart C. Wise]

I tried prepending "name" and it didn't work.  I also tried "file:marafont", 
but that didn't work either.  Your code yesterday was great and I have not 
tried to plug in the mara font into a typescript.  There are some fonts that I 
just want to put in one section of the text without having to write a 
typescript.  That's why I used the \definetypeface and \startfont routines.  I 
just don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Bart

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:49 am Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family name,
> > both with and without the ending semi-colons; however, it fails at
> > compile time.
>
>   Have you tried prepending "name:" to the font name, like I explained
> yesterday?
>
> 	Arthur
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Bart C. Wise]

I also tried plugging it into the typescript (not what I want), but that 
didn't work either.  I tried both the "name:" and the "file:" options.

Still lost,
Bart

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:49 am Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family name,
> > both with and without the ending semi-colons; however, it fails at
> > compile time.
>
>   Have you tried prepending "name:" to the font name, like I explained
> yesterday?
>
> 	Arthur
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Bart C. Wise]

One thing of possible interest is that when I load the font in fontforge, I 
get the following warning:

Bad Font Name
The Postscript font name "MaraFontNF Plain:" is invalid.  It should be 
printable ASCII, must not contain (){}[]<>%/ or space and must be shorter than 
63 characters.

Is the colon at the end of the name a problem?
The font does work on other program on my system.

Bart

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:49 am Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family name,
> > both with and without the ending semi-colons; however, it fails at
> > compile time.
>
>   Have you tried prepending "name:" to the font name, like I explained
> yesterday?
>
> 	Arthur
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> Is the colon at the end of the name a problem?

  No, the message says the problem is with the space character, but it
is of little concern here (XeTeX doesn't use PostScript font names at
all).

  Is it the font from http://www.perry.com/disney/indy/marafont.html?
It seems to have quite a number of other problems actually (xdvipdfmx
protests heavily when I try loading it with plain XeTeX).  You could try
saving it again from FontForge, and installing that modified font (you
of course need to uninstall the original one from your system, or more
problems will likely happen).  While doing so, you can of course modify
whatever seems suspicious (like the trailing colon, etc.).

	Arthur
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Bart C. Wise]

That seems to work.  I just renamed the fontname and family (removing the 
colon), generated a new ttf and loaded that into the system.

So this works:
\definetypeface[MaraFontNFPlain][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain]
\starttext
\startfont[MaraFontNFPlain]
This is a test.
\stoptext

And yes, the url is correct as far as where I got the font from.  And yes, 
there were other errors (or warnings) when I generated the font; however, it 
does work.

One quick question (again expressing my ignorance).  Why can't I take the code 
above and change it to the following:

\definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain]
\starttext
\startfont[Mara]
This is a test.
\stoptext

Thanks,
Bart

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 01:13:02 pm Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > Is the colon at the end of the name a problem?
>
>   No, the message says the problem is with the space character, but it
> is of little concern here (XeTeX doesn't use PostScript font names at
> all).
>
>   Is it the font from http://www.perry.com/disney/indy/marafont.html?
> It seems to have quite a number of other problems actually (xdvipdfmx
> protests heavily when I try loading it with plain XeTeX).  You could try
> saving it again from FontForge, and installing that modified font (you
> of course need to uninstall the original one from your system, or more
> problems will likely happen).  While doing so, you can of course modify
> whatever seems suspicious (like the trailing colon, etc.).
>
> 	Arthur
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> One quick question (again expressing my ignorance).  Why can't I take the code 
> above and change it to the following:
> 
> \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain]
> \starttext
> \startfont[Mara]
> This is a test.
> \stoptext

  I have no idea ... Does it really not work?

	Arthur
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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 18.11.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:

>> One quick question (again expressing my ignorance).  Why can't I  
>> take the code
>> above and change it to the following:
>>
>> \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain]
>> \starttext
>> \startfont[Mara]
>> This is a test.
>> \stoptext
>
>  I have no idea ... Does it really not work?

\definefontsynonym[Mara][name:MaraFontNFPlain]
\starttext
\startfont[Mara]
This is a test.
\stopfont
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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Re: XeTex & Mara Font

[Bart C. Wise]

Wolfgang,

This one does work.

Thanks again,
Bart

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 03:28:45 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 18.11.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:
> >> One quick question (again expressing my ignorance).  Why can't I
> >> take the code
> >> above and change it to the following:
> >>
> >> \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain]
> >> \starttext
> >> \startfont[Mara]
> >> This is a test.
> >> \stoptext
> >
> >  I have no idea ... Does it really not work?
>
> \definefontsynonym[Mara][name:MaraFontNFPlain]
> \starttext
> \startfont[Mara]
> This is a test.
> \stopfont
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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