[Tex/LaTex] fontspec-example.tex on texlive 2010 and Ubuntu

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I try to run fontspec-example.tex through xelatex on my Ubuntu 10.10 installation, combined with texlive 2010.

The package cannot find any of the fonts, e.g., TeX Gyre Pagella (error is that
kpathsea does not like the font having a space in its name). What do I do wrong?
(I do have /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tex-gyre on my system.)

I tried using the tips in this question: What fonts are installed on my box?, but I am not sure I understand how to use the font names obtained there.

Best Answer

(From Finding a font for XeTeX): Fonts that are installed with your TeX distribution (like the TeX Gyre fonts; look in .../texmf-dist/fonts) need to be called with their file name (in XeTeX; LuaTeX accepts the font name). For example,

\setmainfont[
    Ligatures=TeX,
    Extension=.otf,
    UprightFont= *-regular,
    BoldFont=*-bold,
    ItalicFont=*-italic,
    BoldItalicFont=*-bolditalic]{texgyretermes}

See also the “Font selection” chapter in the fontspec manual (texdoc fontspec).

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