[XeTeX] FontName/B seems to be broken

[Stephen Moye]

On Saturday, October 08, 2005, at 10:28AM, musa furber <musaf at runbox.com> wrote:

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>On Oct 8, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
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>> On Saturday, October 08, 2005, at 09:41AM, musa furber  
>> <musaf at runbox.com> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 8, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
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>>>> I just installed XeTeX 0.95. When I typeset a document with this
>>>> sort of font call:
>>>>
>>>> \font\rm="Minion Pro" at 9pt
>>>> \font\frac="Minion Pro:+frac" at 9pt \rm
>>>>     \baselineskip1.25em plus.1pt minus.05pt
>>>> \font\it="Minion Pro/I" at 9pt
>>>> \font\bf="Minion Pro/B" at 9pt
>>>> \font\bi="Minion Pro/BI" at 9pt
>>>> \font\head="Optima Bold" at 12pt
>>>> \font\headit="Optima Bold Italic" at 12pt
>>>>
>>>> all of the bold and italics etc went away, except for the Optima,
>>>> of course, which was explicitly declared.
>>>>
>>>> Help! I need my italics!! ;>}
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you empty your font cache? When I installed 0.94 Minion Italics
>>> would work in Mellel and in TeX, but would not work in XeLaTeX
>>> through fontspec. Emptying the cache took care of it.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Musa
>>>
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>>
>> Wow. That did it. I'm using the new Linotype FontExplorerX (I like  
>> it - a lot); it has a command to clean font caches -- neat. After I  
>> did that, everything worked as advertised.
>>
>> Still, what, exactly, was cleared up, ie., what problem had  
>> occurred that was fixed by clearing the cache? I confess that the  
>> subtleties of OS X escape me sometimes... I would never in a  
>> million years have thought to fix this problem by clearing a font  
>> cache.
>>
>> So much to learn... :>}
>>
>> SGM
>>
>> PS I was not using fontspec (this is a plain project) but it worked...
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>I don't know what the font cache cleaning does, either. There's a  
>saying: when one only has a hammer, every problem starts looking like  
>a nail. Whenever I have font problems, the only thing I have is to  
>clear the font cache.
>
>Thanks for endorsing FontExplorerX. I was tempted to look at it. Now  
>I might just do so.
>
>You might want to post what worked for you on the XeTeX group.
>
>Regards,
>Musa

Oops. I intended this to go to the group, and didn't notice that my mail client made Musa the lucky sole recipient 8>}. Clearing the font cache indeed worked -- many thanks for the tip.

SGM