On 17/11/2021 09:48, Marcel Fabian Krüger wrote:
The string quotes don't have any special meaning in XeTeX. The font name
is read using TeX's normal file scanning routine which (at least for TeX
Live) uses string quotes to allow embedding spaces in the name and then
discards them. Therefore they
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:54:23AM +, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)
wrote:
> > % !TeX Program=XeTeX
> >
> >
> > \font \cmr = "cmr9"
> >
> > \cmr
> >
> > The quick brown fox jumps right over the laxy dog's back.
> >
> > \end
> >
> and found, to my complete surprise, that the text in
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:29:09AM +, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)
wrote:
> Many thanks for your comments, Marcel, but I am still somewhat confused.
> The XeTeX manual says :
>
> > This distinction between file name lookups and system font name lookups
> > is crucial
> > to understandi
On 17/11/2021 11:04, Marcel Fabian Krüger wrote:
Looking at the code again I realized that the quotes actually *do* make
a difference: If the name is quoted XeTeX will first look for a system
font and use a TFM font only if no system font is found, if the name is
not quoted it will forst look fo
