Howdy, You can load the font using file names rather than font names. It's a bit more complicated but certainly doable. That resolves any ambiguity the way you wish.
Good Luck, Herb Schulz > On Jul 27, 2016, at 5:47 PM, Karljürgen Feuerherm <kfeuerh...@kfeuerherm.ca> > wrote: > > I can answer part of this… It loads TTF just fine, as I’ve a font of my own > design that I’ve used with no problems. (Just retested now to be sure nothing > has changed.) > > I don’t know about part two :) > > Karljürgen > >> On Jul 27, 2016, at 16:30, maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote: >> >> Does fontspec load *only* OpenType fonts? >> >> The intro to the fontspec package documentation says >> The fontspec package allows users of either XETEX or >> LuaTEX to load OpenType fonts in a LATEX document. >> Does that mean it doesn't load TrueType etc. fonts, even if there are no >> OpenType versions of those fonts? >> >> Some of the things I've read on-line (like >> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/241927/problem-using-ttf-fonts-with-xelatex) >> seem to imply that fontspec loads ttf fonts just fine. In which case I'll >> have a different question: how to ensure that it prioritizes OTF fonts over >> TTF fonts fc-list finds two such fonts. >> -- >> Mike Maxwell -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex