[OS X TeX] XeLaTeX and fontspec issue

Wed Dec 3 22:38:35 EST 2025

Jeff,

Excellent! Tricky!

Dick

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Okay. I seem to have fixed it. Long story short, I had a bunch of fonts, including a Times New Roman file, in /Library/Fonts folders that weren’t system level. Herb’s mention of/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental sent me looking for a system level Fonts folder with that Supplemental folder in it. I found it, confirmed Times New Roman was in there, and deleted all the other font files from non-system-level Fonts folders.  Before doing this, Font Book showed Time New Roman, but not as a system font. After, Font Book showed Time New Roman as a system font. And the MWE compiled correctly.

Thanks, everyone!

Jeff

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From: MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu<mailto:macosx-tex-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu>> on behalf of Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu<mailto:macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>>
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] XeLaTeX and fontspec issue

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Howdy,

At leastg in recent MacOS versions the Times New Roman.ttf is a System Font found in /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental. Again,  check that it is available in Font Book.app.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
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