It may be a font installation issue if you are on Windows. Windows made
a change awhile back where the default place to install is to a user
folder.
On my system it is: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts
If the fonts are in there, delete them.
Then reinstall the fonts "for all users" and it will go into
C:\Windows\Fonts. This has taken care of my issues with fonts in XeTeX.
Lorna
On 12/14/2020 9:42 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Sun, 13 Dec 2020 17:01:16 +0100 schrieb Carlos Franke:
This would be a neat workaround. However it doesn't compile on my
system either. Running "xelatex temp2.tex" (temp2.tex being Apostolos'
code, only with Minion Pro replaced with another font as I don't have
Minion Pro installed) I get a similar error as before:
[...]
(./temp2.aux) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-
dist/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)kpathsea:make_tex: Invalid filename
`[Jost-500-Medium.otf]/OT', contains '['
! Package fontspec Error: The font "Jost-500-Medium" cannot be
found.
I am likely making some very basic mistake. I would be grateful for any
hint.
I wouldn't use xltxtra, and the Mapping is unneeded too, but beside
this it should work.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Jost-500-Medium.otf}[
BoldFont = Jost-700-Bold.otf ,
ItalicFont = Jost-500-MediumItalic.otf,
BoldItalicFont = Jost-700-BoldItalic.otf]
\begin{document}
\LARGE
\sffamily this is an example \textit{italics}, \textbf{bold},
and \textbf{\textit{bold italics}}.
\end{document}
If you get an error with this the fonts are perhaps not correctly
installed. Where did you put them? Did you really installed the otf?
(the repo seems to provide also ttf.)
Try also to compile with lualatex, it is normally less picky
regarding fonts (and one can inspect the names.lua).
Be that as it may, I am wondering: Should xelatex ideally work with the
font name "Jost*" like it does with "Minion Pro" and others?
Exotic names can always be problematic. And * has the meaning of a
wildcard in various places. I prefer to stick to file names.
