[XeTeX] asterisk in font name - font error

[David Carlisle]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 16:10, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org>
wrote:

> >Works for me, Ulrike :
> >
> >
> > \font \Jost = "Jost*"
> > \Jost Hallo
> >
> > \end
> >
> >
> >Of course, one has to install the font in the first place.
>
> The above code works just fine in Solaris.
> A.S.
>
> ----------------------
> Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece
>
>
>
For me (testing on cygwin and installing the fonts in ~/.fonts)  the Phil's
plain tex example works but I think it is somewhat underspecified which
font you actually get (I got Jost-Black which is a bit.. black...)


$ pdffonts phil.pdf
name                                 type              encoding         emb
sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- ---
--- --- ---------
HMHLTQ+Jost-Black                    CID TrueType      Identity-H       yes
yes yes      5  0
JRRHPJ+CMR10                         Type 1C           Builtin          yes
yes yes      6  0



fontspec does get confused by the  * (probably while trying to figure out
the bold/italic etc variants of the main font) and I  get the

! Package fontspec Error: The font "JostJost*" cannot be found.

error

Which is arguably a fontspec bug but since the "main" font is of a rather
arbitrary weight if loaded as  Jost* it is probably better to specify the
weights as in Ulrike's example anyway.

I did try to avoid the wildcard using a catcode 11 *,  interestingly that
gives a different error, so gets closer but doesn't actually work (for some
definition of "interesting")

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont{Jost\Ucharcat`\* 11 }

\begin{document}

Hallo

\end{document}
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