[XeTeX] Linux Libertine

[Arash Zeini]

On 28 November 2012 00:03, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have TL2012 from svn installed and do not have bold italics in the test
> file.   After you update the font caches, you can see which files are used:
>
> $ fc-list -v  Linux\ Libertine\ O | grep file
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RBI.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_R.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RZI.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RZ.otf"(s)
>     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RB.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RZI.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RZI.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RB.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RBI.otf"(s)
>     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RZ.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_RI.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertineotf/LinLibertine_R.otf"(s)
>     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_R.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RBI.otf"(s)
>     file: "/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_RI.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RZ.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RI.otf"(s)
>     file:
> "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine/LinLibertine530_RB.otf"(s)
>
> so there are some potential conflicts with the distro (Ubuntu 12.04) fonts,
> but only otf fonts.
> If I add the type1 font directories to my ~/.fonts.conf and update the
> caches, I do see the
> bold italic, and there are type1 fonts in the fc-list -v output.

I am working on a newish computer and have never installed Linux
Libertine via apt or KDE's font installer. Whatever I have, came with
TexLive 2012. This morning tlmgr updated libertine and auto-removed
libertineotf and with it "Linux Libertine O". XeLaTeX now complains
that 'The font "Linux Libertine O" cannot be found'. So that solves
the problem for now :) Accordingly, fc-list -v  Linux\ Libertine\ O |
grep file, returns no results, even after restoring libertineotf.

fc-list -v  Linux\ Libertine | grep file:

        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/zxlzi.pfb"(s)
        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/zxlri.pfb"(s)
        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/zxlr.pfb"(s)
        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/fxlzi-7letters.pfb"(s)
        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/fxlri-5letters.pfb"(s)
        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/zxlz.pfb"(s)
        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/fxlzi-5letters.pfb"(s)
        file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/fxlri-7letters.pfb"(s)

After "(sudo) fc-cache -v" I see these lines:
/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/libertine:
skipping, existing cache is valid: 10 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine:
skipping, existing cache is valid: 14 fonts, 0 dirs

Am I right in the assumption that both types are installed on my
computer, but that the open type version is not being served or seen
by XeTeX?

Best,
Arash


> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Arash Zeini <arash.zeini at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 27 November 2012 12:18, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Am 27.11.2012 um 11:56 schrieb Arash Zeini:
>> >
>> >> As I said the problems started with the
>> >> inclusion of the libertine- and biolinum-type1 packages.
>> >
>> > On Linux you have the libfontconfig based font service. It uses commands
>> > like fc-cache, fc-list, etc. It has a configuration file named fonts.conf,
>> > maybe located in /usr/local/etc/fonts. Documentation can be found in the
>> > files fontconfig-user.html or fontconfig-user.pdf. What I'd recommend,
>> > besides reading the documentation, is to find the cache directories of the
>> > system and of you. The latter directory can by ~/.cache or ~/.fontconfig,
>> > maybe with some version number (as in ~/.fontconfig-2.4). This should be
>> > documented (set) in the fonts.conf or personal ~/.fonts.conf files. Then
>> > delete all the cache files and run:
>> >
>> >         sudo fc-cache -v        # for the system
>> >         fc-cache -v             # for you
>> >
>> > Learn to check with the fc-* commands what fonts your service has, from
>> > which font files they come, and which features the fonts provide!
>>
>> I have done this, but the problem persists. Were you suggesting that
>> taking the above steps could possibly solve the bold italics problem?
>>
>> >> And I have
>> >> now noticed that when I update TeXLive, I get an error message for
>> >> missing map files for biolinum and libertine type1 fonts.
>> >
>> > Xe(La)TeX (and LuaTeX) does not use MAP files. XeTeX asks a "font
>> > service", that manages cache files of the installed fonts repository, to
>> > give it a font (and LuaTeX uses its own cache file). So repairing the MAP
>> > files (with pointers from strange or sick TeX font names to real font names
>> > and font files) only helps pdfTeX (XeTeX and LuaTeX use the real font names
>> > directly and need no mapping).
>>
>> I sort of understand this! The point I was trying to make, is that (1)
>> the problem started with the installation of libertine-type1, (2)
>> Khaled suggested in his post that "(Type1 fonts [are] being picked
>> instead of OpenType ones)".
>>
>> Arash
>>
>>
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