On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Some of your statements seem wrong or at least confusing to me: > > Am 2008-03-01 um 13:19 schrieb Roland: > > > > Seems we never posted the conclusion about this problem: XeTeX simply > > doesn't work with the old Mac Type 1 Postscript fonts on Mac OS X > > (Leopard or before). The reason is that these old fonts store their > > data in the resource fork, which Unix utilities like XeTeX don't see. > > Only TrueType or OpenType fonts will be recognised and loaded > > correctly. > > As you state later, all data fork fonts (TrueType, OpenType and > PostScript) should work. > For I never tried XeTeX I don't know if PS Type 1 and 3 will work.
They do. But the mac Type1 fonts come in some weird format for which Jonathan hasn't written support in xdvipdfmx (yet). With xdv2pdf they work OK. > Isn't it possible to use traditional TeX-installed fonts with XeTeX? Yes, it is. But the font that Roland has bought and is trying to use in XeTeX comes in two flavors: one for mac (that's the one he has) and one for Windows. The "traditional TeX-installed" fonts are in the format that Windows uses (another font, actually) and would not work in other Mac applications. He would actually need either: - the windows version of that font (which he doesn't have) - or a patch for XeTeX (xdvipdfmx actually) that would allow him to use the font he has (the patch *might* come one day, but there are more important things in XeTeX waiting to be implemented) - or to patch ConTeXt to use xdv2pdf instead of xdvipdfmx + rewrite a bunch of definitions that load Latin Modern (they should not be loaded since xdv2pdf doesn't support "traditional TeX-installed fonts") - or to convert the font to some other format (officially forbidden, I guess) The second problem is also that the syntax to call that font might need to be changed, but that's a minor problem. A story learned: it is possible, but any of the described ways is extremely clumsy to use, so one should better use another font to avoid problems. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
