On 27 November 2012 12:18, Peter Dyballa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am 27.11.2012 um 11:56 schrieb Arash Zeini:
>
>> As I said the problems started with the
>> inclusion of the libertine- and biolinum-type1 packages.
>
> On Linux you have the libfontconfig based font service. It uses commands like 
> fc-cache, fc-list, etc. It has a configuration file named fonts.conf, maybe 
> located in /usr/local/etc/fonts. Documentation can be found in the files 
> fontconfig-user.html or fontconfig-user.pdf. What I'd recommend, besides 
> reading the documentation, is to find the cache directories of the system and 
> of you. The latter directory can by ~/.cache or ~/.fontconfig, maybe with 
> some version number (as in ~/.fontconfig-2.4). This should be documented 
> (set) in the fonts.conf or personal ~/.fonts.conf files. Then delete all the 
> cache files and run:
>
>         sudo fc-cache -v        # for the system
>         fc-cache -v             # for you
>
> Learn to check with the fc-* commands what fonts your service has, from which 
> font files they come, and which features the fonts provide!

I have done this, but the problem persists. Were you suggesting that
taking the above steps could possibly solve the bold italics problem?

>> And I have
>> now noticed that when I update TeXLive, I get an error message for
>> missing map files for biolinum and libertine type1 fonts.
>
> Xe(La)TeX (and LuaTeX) does not use MAP files. XeTeX asks a "font service", 
> that manages cache files of the installed fonts repository, to give it a font 
> (and LuaTeX uses its own cache file). So repairing the MAP files (with 
> pointers from strange or sick TeX font names to real font names and font 
> files) only helps pdfTeX (XeTeX and LuaTeX use the real font names directly 
> and need no mapping).

I sort of understand this! The point I was trying to make, is that (1)
the problem started with the installation of libertine-type1, (2)
Khaled suggested in his post that "(Type1 fonts [are] being picked
instead of OpenType ones)".

Arash



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