[Tex/LaTex] libertine font package doesn’t work anymore (December 2011)

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If you're using an up-to-date system and you're having trouble with using the Linux Libertine fonts, you should probably check out Linux Libertine package and fonts not working anymore (fall 2012), which deals with the current situation. The situation described in this question and its answer do not apply anymore to current systems.

Ever since an update in December 2011, libertine doesn't work anymore at all, the standard Computer Modern fonts are used instead. The minimal

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
Hello World.
\end{document}

produces the error message

! Package libertine Error: Package is deprecated, use libertineotf!.

If I proceed accordingly and use libertineotf instead of libertine, I get 11 errors and no output:

! Package libertineotf Error: runs only with xelatex and lualatex!.

…

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! Fatal fontspec error: "cannot-use-pdftex"
! 
! The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or LuaTeX to function.
! 
! You must change your typesetting engine to, e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex"
! instead of plain "latex" or "pdflatex".
! 
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
! 
! For immediate help type H .
!...............................................

I am indeed compiling with pdfLaTeX, but I don't want to switch to Xe/LuaLaTeX. Is there any way to get back the Linux Libertine fonts with pdfLaTeX?

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Best Answer

Update your system, then you'll get the old libertine package as libertine-legacy and then it should work as usual. The new package libertineotf supports only xetex and luatex.

With the current TeXLive and MiKTeX as of end of 2012 there is only one package libertine.sty which can be used as

\usepackage[options]{libertine}

Depending on what was run (xelatex/lualatex/pdflatex), it loads by itself the package fontspec or fontenc and does all the configuration.

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[Tex/LaTex] Conflict between color, graphicx and libertine

These option clashes happen when a package is requested to be loaded on two different positions, like by you and inside another package, but with different options. The package is loaded by the first \usepackage (or its twin \RequirePackage); it isn't loaded again when it is requested again. It simply can't be loaded a second time. Therefore the new options can be activated and previous options might conflict with the second usage. So LaTeX creates an error to report this issue to you.

The way to fix this is to declare the options beforehand using \PassOptionsToPackage{<options>}{<package>}. Then they are used wherever the package is loaded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
    \PassOptionsToPackage{pdftex,usenames,dvipsnames}{color}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{libertine} % most likely loads 'color' itself
    %\usepackage{lmodern} % doesn't load 'color'
    \usepackage{color}
    \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\else
    %\bye
\fi
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

I can't test it by myself, because I don't have the libertine package installed.

PS:

I don't think you need to set pdftex manually. Normally packages do a good job recognizing the driver by themselves. Also you might want to use the extended xcolor package instead of color.

[Tex/LaTex] Problems with opentype options under XeTeX

First, a font does not necessarily support all types of ligatures. Linux Libertine supports only (checked here) Ligatures={Common,Rare,Discretionary}.

The OpenType variant of Linux Libertine shipped with media-fonts/libertine-ttf works on an up-to-date Gentoo with TeX Live 2011. Another option is to install the dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra package, which also contains the font. To use it and to be able to select it by name, run this command after installation:

eselect fontconfig enable 09-texlive.conf

This will allow all programs to access fonts installed in the TeX Live texmf tree.

Then this code will work as expected:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Ligatures={Common,Rare,Discretionary}]{Linux Libertine O}

\begin{document}

Hello World

\end{document}

Note: This was tested on TeX Live 2011. Gentoo has TeX Live 2010 as the stable version. If you keep experiencing problems, try upgrading to the newer version of TeX Live.

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