xetex problems

xetex problems

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello out there,

I feel stupid: the following file runs fine on live.contextgarden.net
(xetex engine)

\font\myfont="Iwona-Regular"
\myfont

\starttext
Hello world!
\stoptext


but not on my local installation:

texmfstart texexec --xtx simple
TeXExec | processing document 'simple'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file simple.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 769
TeXExec | tex engine: xetex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored)
entering extended mode
(./simple.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2007.03.19 11:20 MKII  fmt: 2007.3.30  int: english/english

language        : language en is active
system          : cont-new loaded

.....

(/opt/context/current/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii))
specials        : fdf loaded
)
specials        : fdf,dpx loaded
)
! Font \myfont=Iwona-Regular not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font 
not found.
<to be read again> 
                   \myfont 
l.2 \myfont



Any clue what could cause the trouble?

Patrick
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Re: xetex problems

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> Any clue what could cause the trouble?

  Your font is probably only in the texmf tree, it should be installed;
that is, on Mac OS X, simply double-click on the font and select
“Install”. It will be put in ~/Library/Fonts (probably) and some caching
utilities will be run so that in can be found by Apple's API.

  If you wonder why it works “out of the box” on ConTeXtgarden Live,
well, it must be because someone has installed it (and I should know ;-)

	Arthur
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Re: xetex problems

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi Arthur,

>   Your font is probably only in the texmf tree, it should be
>   installed;

Ok, that was the problem. 

>   If you wonder why it works “out of the box” on ConTeXtgarden Live,
> well, it must be because someone has installed it (and I should know ;-)


Next ConTeXt meeting I won't go to sleep at all, just in case I could
miss important changes (like switching to xetex at 4:44 a.m) :-))


Merci beaucoup,

Patrick
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Re: xetex problems

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> Next ConTeXt meeting I won't go to sleep at all, just in case I could
> miss important changes (like switching to xetex at 4:44 a.m) :-))

  That's probably the best choice. 24 hours a day are hardly enough anyway :-)

Re: xetex problems

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 3/31/07, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hi Arthur,
>
> >   Your font is probably only in the texmf tree, it should be
> >   installed;
>
> Ok, that was the problem.

Hmmm ... there must be a few additional lines somewhere in fontconfig.

> >   If you wonder why it works "out of the box" on ConTeXtgarden Live,
> > well, it must be because someone has installed it (and I should know ;-)
>
> Next ConTeXt meeting

Great news ;) - I have already put you on the list ;)

It seems to me that the list of attendands of the second meeting is
going to be full even before the next meeting will be announced.

> I won't go to sleep at all, just in case I could
> miss important changes (like switching to xetex at 4:44 a.m) :-))

Don't worry, Patrick ... I guess that I won't have any sleep in the
last two weeks before the meeting, so you'll have to lock my account
for safety reasons anyway ;) Just find a distraction for Arthur and
you'll be on the safe side ;)

Mojca

Re: xetex problems

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> Hmmm ... there must be a few additional lines somewhere in fontconfig.

  /etc/fonts/local.conf, I guess... as far as the fontconfig side of the
Force is concerned, this is the right location to add “local” font
directories (say /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/iwona)
but on Mac OS X, OpenType fonts are found by the system libraries and
fontconfig is of no concern (so you'll have to make the fonts available
to the system by simply installing them, as I explained in my previous
e-mail).

	Arthur
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Re: xetex problems

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi,

[xetex on linux, esp. on contextgarden.net]

>   /etc/fonts/local.conf, I guess... as far as the fontconfig side of the
> Force is concerned, this is the right location to add “local” font
> directories (say
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/iwona)

That is the secret! You see that I am not a xetex user myself. 

Thanks for the info,

Patrick

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Re: xetex problems

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 4/1/07, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [xetex on linux, esp. on contextgarden.net]
>
> >   /etc/fonts/local.conf, I guess... as far as the fontconfig side of the
> > Force is concerned, this is the right location to add "local" font
> > directories (say
> > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/iwona)
>
> That is the secret! You see that I am not a xetex user myself.

Btw.: you can now play with OpenType features in luaTeX on the garden as well.

Mojca

Re: xetex problems

[Arthur Reutenauer]

>                              Just find a distraction for Arthur and
> you'll be on the safe side ;)
> 
> Mojca
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