I'm a TeX Newbie and I'm trying to get XeTex to work with FontAwesome. Initially I got the error : The font "FontAwesome" cannot be found. So I added the path defaultfontfeatures as suggested in: FontAwesome font not found?
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{
Path = /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmfdist/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome/ }
\usepackage{fontawesome,url}
Now I want to choose some other fonts like these:
\setromanfont[Mapping={tex-text},
Numbers={OldStyle},
Ligatures={Common}]{Minion Pro}
\setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text,
Ligatures={Common},
Colour=AA0000]{Unit-Medium}
\setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text,Scale=0.72]{Consolas}
\newfontface\scheader[SmallCapsFont={Minion Pro},SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps}]{Minion Pro}
\newfontface\addressblock[Mapping={tex-text},
Numbers={OldStyle},
Ligatures={Common}]{Minion Pro Medium Caption}
I get the following error:
kpathsea:make_tex: Invalid fontname `[/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome/Minion Pro]/ICU', contains '['
The font "Minion Pro" cannot be found.
What can I do to fix this?
EDIT:
The error regarding fontawesome:
)) (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/fontawesome.sty
kpathsea: Running mktextfm FontAwesome
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation F for FontAwesome.
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FontAwesome
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2013)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf FontAwesome
! I can't find file `FontAwesome'.
<*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FontAwesome
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FontAwesome
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: FontAwesome.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FontAwesome' failed to make FontAwesome.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
!
! The font "FontAwesome" cannot be found.
!
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
!
! For immediate help type H <return>.
!...............................................
l.27 \newfontfamily{\FA}{FontAwesome}
?
Best Answer
If you've installed the font in a proper texmf directory, run
texhash
or the equivalent for your system. XeTeX will then find the font without having to specify the location.Secondly, including
Path
in\defaultfontfeatures
is almost certainly wrong in almost all cases. This is what is causing your error — after specifying aPath
, fontspec assumes that the font to be loaded is specified by filename. So when you writethis is equivalent to
which in turn means that "Minion Pro" will be attempted to be loaded by filename from the
fontawesome
directory. This obviously fails!Short answer: just delete the line including
\defaultfontfeatures
and you should be right, as long asfontawesome
is installed correctly.(By the way,
\setromanfont
has now been deprecated for many many years; you should use\setmainfont
instead.)