Am Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:25:14 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > Thanks all for your interesting responses. > > Unfortunately, my possibly poorly worded question remains unanswered. Let me > try again. > > Consider the short example just used: > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{fontspec} > \setmainfont{DejaVu Serif} > > \begin{document} > ^^^^fffd > \end{document} > > When I run it, fontspec complains that it can't find the font. So obviously > "DejaVu Serif" is not installed, either on my system or anywhere in the > bowels of all the ~150,000 TeXLive (2019) files that have been installed in > the TDS on my machine.
No, it only says that it is not found by fontname. Something that happens often on linux. Try with \setmainfont{DejaVuSerif.ttf} > So, is there a font name I can use in the \setmainfont{} command > that is ALWAYS available (upon TeX installation) when processing > this LaTeX file with XeTeX? Or always available after a certain > version of a TeX installation? I have no idea when DejaVu was added but it is in texlive 2019. If you want to support also older systems try e.g. on overleaf. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/