[OS X TeX] Snow Leopard font problems

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Stephen Anderson wrote:

> Thanks (as always) for the quick, informative tips.  The problem  
> isn't solved yet, though....
>
> a) @ David Watson: I had already tried to fix this via FontBook,  
> doing "Resolve Duplicates" for every font that was flagged that  
> way.  No help.
>
> b) @ Herbert Schulz: the engine file you refer to are nowhere to be  
> found on my system, so I can't follow your advice.  But since the  
> same thing does not happen with other files compiled with ordinary  
> LaTeX, the issue must somehow be related to XeLaTeX.
>
> Perhaps I have to wait for TeX Live 2009? Or is there some other way  
> to update XeLaTeX?
>
> c) @ Peter Dyballa: Here's a simple example
>
>> %%% -*- Mode: LaTeX -*-
>> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
>> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
>>
>> \usepackage{euler}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \usepackage{xunicode}
>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>>
>> \usepackage{url}
>>
>> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>>
>>
>> \begin{document}
>> \fontspec[ItalicFont={YaleAdmin-Italic},
>> BoldFont={YaleAdmin-Bold},
>> BoldItalicFont={YaleAdmin-BoldItalic},
>> SmallCapsFont={YaleSmallCap-Regular}]
>> {YaleAdmin}
>>
>> This is a sentence containing a URL: \url{foo.bahz at bar.edu}.  And  
>> this
>> is a sentence with some courier text, namely \texttt{this text here}
>> which should be set in another font.
>> \end{document}
>
>
> And here's the TeXShop log file:
>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./foo.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
>> dumylang, noh
>> yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech,  
>> slovak, german, ng
>> erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian,  
>> farsi, finnish,
>> french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian,  
>> interlingua, ibyc
>> us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk,  
>> polish, por
>> tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian,  
>> serbian, swedish,
>> turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document  
>> class
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/euler/euler.sty
>> Package: `euler' v2.5 <1995/03/05> (FJ and FMi)
>>
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `U' for symbol font
>> (Font)              `letters' in the math version `normal' on input  
>> line 35.
>>
>>
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `U' for symbol font
>> (Font)              `letters' in the math version `bold' on input  
>> line 35.
>>
>> ) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
>> fontspec.cfg loaded.
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg))
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/xunicode.sty)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/xelatex/xltxtra/xltxtra.sty
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/graphics/graphics.cfg)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def
>> ...supports rotation and scaling
>> ))) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/etex/etex.sty)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/base/fixltx2e.sty))
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/url.sty) (./foo.aux)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/latex/base/ucmtt.fd)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/amsfonts/ueur.fd)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/amsfonts/ueuf.fd)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/amsfonts/ueus.fd)
>> (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/latex/amsfonts/ueuex.fd) [1] (./ 
>> foo.aux) )
>> Output written on foo.pdf (1 page).
>> Transcript written on foo.log.
>>
>
> The resulting pdf has long blank spaces in both the place of \url{}  
> material and the \texttt{}.  The problem isn't apparent to me from  
> this, but it may be to you.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- 
>
> Steve Anderson

Howdy,

Oh my goodness... I see that you're still using gwTeX. That's at least  
4 years old and quickly going out of date. I'm not at all sure that  
the xdvi2pdf back end (I don't think there was an xdvpdfmx back end at  
that time) may not be up to dealing with the ttc font format at all;  
hopefully Jonathan Kew will see this so he can comment.

You can download and install MacTeX-2008 and then update some of the  
binaries via <http://www.tug.org/mactex/> and the links about the FAQ  
and Font Cache bug (if you use TeXShop move the ~/Library/TeXShop/ 
Engines/ folder to your Desktop and restart TeXShop and that folder,  
with updated engines, will be recreated). Or you can wait a short time  
and MacTeX-2009 will be out and all of the problems you are  
experiencing will be fixed (possibly to be replaced by others :-)).

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)