[XeTeX] How to select a condensed font

[Anders Källström]

Francisco Chaves wrote:
> I have the URW fonts installed and I can select the regular font with:
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L}
> \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L}
>
> With the "NimbusSanLCon" I obtain the following error:
>
> *******************************
> makemf: The NimbusSanLCon source file could not be found.
> Running hbf2gf...
>
> hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.8.0)
>
> Couldn't find `NimbusSanLC.cfg'
> maketfm: No creation rule for font NimbusSanLCon.
>
> ! Font \zf at basefont=NimbusSanLCon at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or
> installed font not found.
> \zf at fontspec ...ntname \zf at suffix " at \f at size pt
>                                                   \unless \ifzf at icu \zf at set@...
> l.15 \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{NimbusSanLCon}
> *******************************
>
> the fc-list gives me the following names for the font:
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Italic
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Italic
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed
> Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic
>
>
> Francisco
>
>   
>> On my computer, \setmainfont{Mapping=tex-text]{NimbusSanLCon} works (I have
>> the URW fonts).
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>     
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I want to use the Nimbus Sans L in the condensed series, I tryed many
>>> ways without success :(
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>     Francisco
>>>
>>>
>>> % 1st try
>>> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L Condensed}
>>> \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L Condensed}
>>>
>>> % 2nd try with the fc-list name
>>> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed}
>>> \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed}
>>>
>>> % 3rd try
>>> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L:style=Condensed}
>>> \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L:style=Condensed}
>>>
>>> % 4th try
>>> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L:series=Condensed}
>>> \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Nimbus Sans L:series=Condensed}
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I get the same result with fc-list and the following command works

\setmainfont{Nimbus Sans L Regular Condensed}

Running the little file

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont{Nimbus Sans L Regular Condensed}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

the output from pdffonts shows
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
NQQMUB+NimbusSanL-ReguCond-Identity-H CID Type 0C       yes yes yes      
5  0


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