[XeTeX] How to specify Fontin Sans (has underscore in file names) with Fontspec?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:21:42PM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> I have downloaded the free font Fontin Sans from Jos Buivenga’s exljbris
> at <http://josbuivenga.demon.nl/fontinsans.html>.  Trouble is, the
> small-caps style is provided as a separate font, so I need to use the
> “[BoldFont = …, SmallCapsFont = …]” style.  Trouble with that is that
> the file names have underscores, and the naïve invocation
> 	\setsansfont[
> 		UprightFont	= Fontin_Sans_R_45b,
> 		BoldFont	= Fontin_Sans_B_45b,
> 		ItalicFont	= Fontin_Sans_I_45b,
> 		BoldItalicFont	= Fontin_Sans_BI_45b,
> 		SmallCapsFont	= Fontin_Sans_SC_45b,
> 		Ligatures = TeX
> 		]{Fontin Sans}
> fails miserably.
> 
> What I now have is a directory into which I have put hard links to the
> Fontin Sans font files, under “nicer” names, so I can use the invocation
> 	\setsansfont[
> 		Path	= /home/chesky/font-links/ ,
> 		BoldFont	= *-B ,
> 		ItalicFont	= *-I ,
> 		BoldItalicFont	= *-BI ,
> 		SmallCapsFont	= *-SC ,
> 		Ligatures = TeX
> 		]{Fontin Sans}
> which is ugly.
> 
> How do I get around this?  Is there an \makeunderscoreletter macro
> available?  (Expl3?)

Not a real answer, but can't you use font names instead of file names
(assuming font names don't have underscores).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer