Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread David Perry
Thanks to Gareth and everybody who replied; I've got it working now. David On 10/11/2010 9:30 AM, Gareth Hughes wrote: Dear David, The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. However, the followin

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Perry wrote: On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the PostScript name. I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Probably a typo (or dead key) for "otfinfo". Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:37:53AM -0400, David Perry wrote: > > > On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the > >PostScript name. > I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Google turns up nothing > relevant. Sorry,

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Baker
On 10/11/10 11:37 AM, David Perry wrote: On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the PostScript name. I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Google turns up nothing relevant. Thanks - David That's otfinfo I thi

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread David Perry
On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the PostScript name. I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Google turns up nothing relevant. Thanks - David -- Subscripti

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 11 Oct 2010, at 15:06, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: >> Oh, now I see what you're trying to do ... and what you've got here, >> Gareth, works for me. You can also use: >> >> \setmainfont[ItalicFont={BergamoStd-Italic}, >> BoldFont={BergamoStd-Bold}, >> BoldItalicFont={Berga

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:06:26PM +0100, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > > Oh, now I see what you're trying to do ... and what you've got here, > > Gareth, works for me. You can also use: > > > > \setmainfont[ItalicFont={BergamoStd-Italic}, > > BoldFont={BergamoStd-Bold}, > >

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Gareth Hughes
Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > Oh, now I see what you're trying to do ... and what you've got here, > Gareth, works for me. You can also use: > > \setmainfont[ItalicFont={BergamoStd-Italic}, > BoldFont={BergamoStd-Bold}, > BoldItalicFont={BergamoStd-BoldItalic}]{Cardo} Yes, it looks like fontspec a

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Gareth Hughes wrote: Dear David, The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. However, the following works for me: \setmainfont[ItalicFont={Bergamo Std Italic}, BoldFont={Bergamo Std Bold}, BoldItal

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:30:43PM +0100, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Dear David, > > The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never > been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Gareth Hughes
Dear David, The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. However, the following works for me: \setmainfont[ItalicFont={Bergamo Std Italic}, BoldFont={Bergamo Std Bold}, BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std Bol

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
David Perry wrote: Yes, I just realized that my example from the fontspec manual was not exactly parallel to the situation I have. However, doing it as Gareth suggests generates all sorts of nasty error messages. I just tried specifying the bold etc. by font file names; no errors, but no bo

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 05:10 schrieb Alan Munn: Theoretically either argument could have any other kind of unit. Right! It works well with mm or a mixture of units. TeX points are a reliable fall-back default. -- Greetings Pete One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and du

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
Yes, I just realized that my example from the fontspec manual was not exactly parallel to the situation I have. However, doing it as Gareth suggests generates all sorts of nasty error messages. I just tried specifying the bold etc. by font file names; no errors, but no bold in the document ei

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Andy Lin
Gareth is right; that is how you use BoldFont. Take a look at the example from the fontspec manual again. It's using the HN-Regular as the bold font because it's heavier than HN-Ultralight. -Andy On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:05, David Perry wrote: > >> >>> >>> 2. Can anybody see what is wrong with

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
On 10/10/2010 5:00 PM, Gareth Hughes wrote: 2. Can anybody see what is wrong with the following? \fontspec[BoldFont={Bergamo Std},ItalicFont={Bergamo Std},BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std}]{Cardo} Yeah, you just declared the medium, upright font as bold and italic. What you need is \fontspec[Bol

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Alan Munn
On Oct 10, 2010, at 10:48 PM, David Perry wrote: On 10/10/2010 5:31 PM, Alan Munn wrote: On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cov

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
On 10/10/2010 5:00 PM, Gareth Hughes wrote: I'm not sure that thinking about the point size in absolute terms is all that useful. If the body text is at 12pt, then something that is at 60pt is five times bigger. I would use \addfontfeature{Scale=5} for a single line of text, like a title. Othe

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
On 10/10/2010 5:31 PM, Alan Munn wrote: On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The L

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.10.2010 um 22:26 schrieb David Perry: he LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work Did you add \selectfont? -- Greetings Pete What's the difference between OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about OS X… -- Sub

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Alan Munn
On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
David Perry wrote: > This seems to be my day for font problems. > > 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when > running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge > isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work > -- it comes ou

[XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work -- it comes out much smaller than 60 pts,