[XeTeX] unicode-math testing

[George N. White III]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Diederick C. Niehorster
<dcnieho at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> Looks like xetex is getting glyph indexes from one font file but loading
>> the actual glyph from another font. Checking the output of 'fc-list :
>> file' my reveal that you, or whoever is experiencing this, have several
>> version of the font accessible to xetex, if so, then removing all but
>> one can solve the issue.
>
> I have had problems like this as well, a while ago, but simply with
> fontspec. I had one of Adobe's fonts in both my windows fonts
> directory and in the TeX tree (same version btw) and my documents came
> out all garbled. Removing the one in windows\fonts fixed it.
>
> Should XeTeX just stick with whichever of the fonts it finds first?

At the very least there should be some warning if different versions of
fonts are being used at different stages, but I suppose this could get
very noisy with the common practice of having at least 3 very
different fonts all claiming to be Helvetica-Italic, so perhaps it needs
to be added to some list of debugging flags and left off by default.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia