<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi, all.<div><br></div><div>I’m working on a translation of an old (1938) French math text (Georges Verriest, <i>Théorie des équations selon Galois</i>). 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. </div><div><br></div><div>Any help would be most welcome. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is my minimum (non-)working example:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>\documentclass[10 pt]{letter} </div><div>\usepackage{fontspec}</div><div>\setmainfont{QTLinostroke}</div><div>\begin{document}</div><div>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</div><div>\end{document}</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>I realize that I may have the font name wrong, but: the LaTeX Font Catalog reads thus:</div><div><br></div><div><h2 style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); background-image: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 19pt;">QT Linostroke</h2><h3 style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); background-image: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">Text example</h3>…</div><div><span style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Usage</span></div><div><pre style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{QTLinostroke}
</pre><pre style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Font Catalog also says that this font is included in TeXLive. </pre><pre style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And here’s the logfile:</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999997 (TeX Live 2025) (preloaded format=xelatex)</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 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.</pre><pre style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Again, thanks in advance for any help. I’m sorry to be such a doofus when it comes to fonts.</pre><pre style="font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Derbes, Chicago; friendly neighborhood physics teacher (retired)</pre></div></div></body></html>