Bug#1017969: texlive-latex-recommended: As configured by texlive-latex-recommended, fontspec using XeLaTeX cannot find system fonts by name.
Package: texlive-latex-recommended
Version: 2022.20220722-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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As installed by vanilla installation of texlive-full, \fontspec used with
XeLaTeX
doesn't find TrueType/Opentype "system" fonts (i. e. found by fc-list), when
the
fonts are denoted by font name, and the compilation stops with an error
(sometimes
after a large number of attempts to call Metafont...).
- \fontspec used with LuaLaTeX does find them by font name ;
- \fontspec used with XeLaTeX does find them when the fonts are denoted by
file name ;
- the TeXlive guide points to a configuration file
(TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf)
which does not exost in the Debian-installed system.
See (https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-330003.4.4)
about the latter.
A minimal (non-)working example is :
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Minimal demonstration of font specification problems with XeTeX as
% installed by Debian's texlive-full package.
\documentclass[11pt, english]{article}
\usepackage{iftex}
\ifpdftex
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\else
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\ifluatex
% With LuaTeX, font name specification works beautifully.
\setmainfont{Tex Gyre Termes}
\setmathfont{Tex Gyre Termes Math}
\else% XeTeX...
% \setmainfont{TexGyreTermes}
% \setmathfont{Tex Gyre Termes Math}
% With XeTeX, font name specification doesn't work.
% The least verbose way is :
\setmainfont{texgyretermes}[
Extension = .otf,
UprightFont = *-regular,
BoldFont = *-bold,
ItalicFont = *-italic,
BoldItalicFont = *-bolditalic]
\setmathfont{texgyretermes-math.otf}
\fi
\fi
\begin{document}
This is compiled by \ifluatex Lua\TeX{} \else
\ifxetex Xe\TeX{} \else pdf\TeX\fi\fi.
Math typesetting check :
\[%
\phi_{\mu,\,\sigma}\left(x\right)\,=\,
\displaystyle\frac{%
e^{-\frac{\left(x-\mu\right)^2}{2\sigma^2}}}{
\sqrt{2\pi}}\,.%
\]
\end{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
A bit of Googling shows a number of occurrences of the problem, with no clear
resolution.
A solution to this problem might help would-be XeLaTeX users : some
installation script
should install whatever is adapted to "The Debian Way(TM)" of installing
TeXlive...
Failing that, this should be documented,and a workaround suggested.
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##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 1233 Nov 30 2019 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3708 Aug 22 09:16 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Sep 4 2021 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 25 16:02 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 25 16:02 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 9 2021 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 25 16:02 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 25 16:02 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5130 Jul 31 07:48 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
######################################
Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Sep 2 2018 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 9 2021 texmf.cnf
######################################
md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended depends on:
ii tex-common 6.17
ii texlive-base 2022.20220722-1
ii texlive-binaries 2022.20220321.62855-4
ii texlive-latex-base 2022.20220722-1
texlive-latex-recommended recommends no packages.
Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended suggests:
ii texlive-latex-recommended-doc 2022.20220722-1
ii texlive-luatex 2022.20220722-1
ii texlive-pstricks 2022.20220722-2
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.21.9
ii ucf 3.0043
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 13.9
Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended is related to:
ii tex-common 6.17
ii texlive-binaries 2022.20220321.62855-4
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