[OS X TeX] It is possible to use UCS free Unicode fonts with XeTeX (FreeSans, FreeSerif, etc)

[signups at norvelle.org]

Thanks to everybody for their kind help.  As it turns out, the simple 
fix provided by Jonathan Kew did the trick perfectly.

I've also upgraded to TexLive, as suggested, and everything works beautifully.

-Erik Norvelle

Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2007, at 2:12 am, Signups wrote:
>>
>> The fonts I chose to use are from the UCS free font collection, i.e. 
>> FreeSans, FreeSerif and FreeMono.  XeTeX *will* produce PDF files 
>> using these fonts, if I use the command "\font\freeserif=FreeSerif at 
>> 12pt".   The problem is that mktextfm cannot generate font metrics, 
>> and thus every time I generate the PDF file, it takes a good half a 
>> minute.  The log results I get are listed below.
>
> Put quotes around the font name, as in
>
>    \font\freeserif="FreeSerif" at 12pt
>
> Reason: without quotes, it looks like a traditional \font declaration, 
> and xetex first looks for FreeSerif.tfm -- and then the mktextfm 
> machinery kicks in to try and build it. But with a quoted name, xetex 
> assumes you mean a "real font name" rather than a tfm file.
>
> HTH,   JK
>
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