[Tex/LaTex] Does Kerkis font work with xelatex

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I'm a confused on whether xelatex and kerkis font can be used together. I'm using Ubuntu 13.10, Tex Live 2013/Debian, and I have the kerkis font installed. Though, if I try to compile the following snippet:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}

\usepackage{kerkis}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Kerkis}

\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}
Hi!
\end{document}

I get the following errors:

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source
abbreviation K for Kerkis. … snip … kpathsea: Running mktexmf
Kerkis ! I can't find file Kerkis'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1;
nonstopmode; input Kerkis ... snip ... kpathsea: Running mktexmf
Kerkis ! I can't find fileKerkis'. <*> …:=ljfour; mag:=1;
nonstopmode; input Kerkis

I've searched into tex.stackexchange.com and it appears as if Kerkis works only with Babel. Is there a definitive answer? If the answer is no, what other fonts do you suggest instead ? Thanks!

Best Answer

You need the TrueType or OpenType version of Kerkis. You can download them from the University of the Aegean site in the Kerkis page. Decompress the .zip files; install the fonts and use them:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Kerkis}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

An image of the Properties of the document above after processing:

enter image description here

The Copyright belongs to the The Department of Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, Karlobasi, and the site explicitly has the follwoing warning:

If you want to use this font family in commercial work (like in books) you must include in the Copyright section the fact that you are using "Kerkis (C) Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean".

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