Re: Bug with fonts in subdirectory?

[Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>]

See the manual of fontspec p. 10-11. You will probably have to write the relevant code in your template file or in your YAML header via header-includes.

Le Sunday 13 November 2022 à 08:14:04AM, Terence Eden a écrit :
> Thank you, that's helpful. I can use the fonts which are installed. But,
> weirdly, I can use a TTF which is *not* installed as long as the file is in the
> same directory as the input file.
> 
> I'll go look through the XeLaTeX documentation. Thanks once again.
> 
> On Sunday, 13 November 2022 at 15:38:04 UTC Joost wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Sun, Nov 13 2022, Terence Eden wrote:
>     > I am trying to convert a .md file to a .pdf using a specific TTF font.
>     > Pandoc doesn't work unless the .ttf is in the same directory as the .md
>     > file. Is that normal?
>     >
>     > This works:
>     > pandoc in.md --pdf-engine=xelatex -V mainfont="font.ttf" -o test.pdf
>     >
>     > I get a PDF in my specific font.
>     >
>     > But this fails:
>     > pandoc in.md --pdf-engine=xelatex -V mainfont="fonts/fontname/font.ttf"
>     -o
>     > test.pdf
>     >
>     > It gives the error:
>     >
>     > Error producing PDF.
>     > ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>     > <to be read again>
>     > f
>     > l.19 \fi
>     >
>     > I know Pandoc can read the directory, because if I try to use a .ttf
>     which
>     > doesn't exist, I get the error "! Package fontspec Error: The font
>     > "fonts/foo/bar" cannot be found."
>     >
>     > Is this a bug, or me not understanding how to use Pandoc properly (a
>     > distinct possibility!)
> 
>     The mainfont variable is not a Pandoc option but something that's passed to
>     the
>     fontspec package used by XeLaTeX. It doesn't take a font file as value, but
>     a
>     font name.
> 
>     For it to work, you need to make sure that XeLaTeX can find the font. As
>     far as
>     I know, this means that the font must be installed on your system. If
>     that's OK
>     for you, you can simply double-click the ttf file in your file manager and
>     your
>     system should install the font automatically, or open it in a application
>     that
>     will allow you to install it.
> 
>     If you do not wish to install the font, you'll need to figure out if
>     XeLaTeX can
>     be taught to use fonts from fonts file that aren't installed. I don't know
>     if
>     that's possible.
> 
> 
>     --
>     Joost Kremers
>     Life has its moments
> 
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