[OS X TeX] Trying to get Linostroke working with LaTeX

[David Derbes]

Hi, all.

I’m working on a translation of an old (1938) French math text (Georges Verriest, Théorie des équations selon Galois). I’d like to mimic its appearance as closely as I can. The symbols for various groups are an old French font I cannot duplicate. The font Linostroke QT (or QT Linostroke; I’ve tried both) seems pretty close, but I can’t get it to run. 

Any help would be most welcome. 

I should add that I’m running Tahoe (for the second day) on a M2 Mini with 16 GB ram ut I had this same problem with the upgraded (?) version of Sequoia, which seemed so broken (Safari routinely crashed) that I reluctantly went to Tahoe. 

Here is my minimum (non-)working example:

\documentclass[10 pt]{letter}      
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{QTLinostroke}
\begin{document}
A\,B\,C\,D\,E\,F\,G\,H\,I\,J\,K\,L\,M\,N\,O\,P\,Q\,R\,S\,T\,U\,V\,W\,X\,Y\,Z
\end{document}

I realize that I may have the font name wrong, but: the LaTeX Font Catalog reads thus:

QT Linostroke

Text example

…

Usage
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{QTLinostroke}
The Font Catalog also says that this font is included in TeXLive. 
And here’s the logfile:
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999997 (TeX Live 2025) (preloaded format=xelatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm QTLinostroke
/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation Q for QTLinostroke.
/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input QTLinostroke
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828182 (TeX Live 2025) (preloaded base=mf)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf QTLinostroke

! I can't find file `QTLinostroke'.
<*> ...; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input QTLinostroke
                                                  
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input QTLinostroke
                                                  
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: QTLinostroke.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input QTLinostroke' failed to make QTLinostroke.tfm.


Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
Again, thanks in advance for any help. I’m sorry to be such a doofus when it comes to fonts.
David Derbes, Chicago; friendly neighborhood physics teacher (retired)
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