Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ fontspec cannot resolve font

[daij52]

Greetings. I am running texlive on my linux mint system. I also have a very old mac mini that is too slow for the typesetting job I am working on.

I have read the first part of the fontspec manual, where it describes how to set fonts using specific paths to otf files.

I (naively) copied a set of otf files from my mac mini to my linux system, and then attempted to set the main font using fontspec, identifying the upright, italic, and bold font files copied from the mac. But fontspec reports that it cannot resolve the font. I am using luatex as the main engine. Here is the latex code:

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 \documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont{  IgnoreFontspecFile,
  UprightFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Regular.otf,
  BoldFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Bold.otf,
  ItalicFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Italic.otf,
  BoldItalicFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Bolditalic.otf
  }

\begin{document}
This is a test.
\end{document}

The log file is attached. (However, this is my first post in this forum, so I don't really understand the effect of "attaching" a file.)

Should this work?

[zauguin]

Generally fontspec only expects a name for the font in it's main argument, ll other options are given in a separate optional argument. So all the things you wrote between `{}` need to go between `[]` and you additionally need to provide some name in `{}`. So e.g.

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\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont[IgnoreFontspecFile,
  UprightFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Regular.otf,
  BoldFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Bold.otf,
  ItalicFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Italic.otf,
  BoldItalicFont = /home/david/fonts/ACaslonPro-Bolditalic.otf
]{ACaslonPro}

\begin{document}
This is a test.
\end{document}

should work. (Untested, since I don't have the font) It's more common to pass the path and extension as separate options though:

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\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont[IgnoreFontspecFile,
  Path = /home/david/fonts/,
  Extension = .otf,
  UprightFont = *-Regular,
  BoldFont = *-Bold,
  ItalicFont = *-Italic,
  BoldItalicFont = *-Bolditalic
]{ACaslonPro}

\begin{document}
This is a test.
\end{document}