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I am trying to use the latest Baskervaldx package (2020-Nov-07; included in TeXLive2020) with the swash feature either as a package option or using the \swshape command. I use latexmk -pdf to compile my document, but the following error appears:

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kpathsea: Running mktextfm Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1
/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation B for Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1.
/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2020) (preloaded base=mf)
...
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1' failed to make Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/Baskervaldx-TLF/m/sw/10=Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
...

My MWE is as follows:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{Baskervaldx}
\usepackage{lipsum}


\begin{document}


\swshape


\lipsum[1]


\end{document}

Any idea what is missing? The only Baskervaldx files that have 'swash' in the filename in my TeXLive distribution under /usr/local/texlive are e.g. Baskervaldx-Ita-tlf-swash-t1.htf but I have no idea what mktextfm, .htf etc. are. I tried to load \usepackage[T1,LY1]{fontenc} or use xelatex latexmk -pdfxe but these didn't work either with the same errors.

Thanks in advance.

Mike W
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  • For some (unknown) reason, the swash fonts have been dropped, see http://tug.org/svn/texlive?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=56883 I can only think to a mistake, because the ChangeLog doesn't report the dropping and the documentation still mention the fonts. Report to the maintainer. – egreg Dec 04 '20 at 21:42
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    @egreg I see, just relieved it's not me doing something wrong. Thanks! – Mike W Dec 04 '20 at 22:19
  • For anyone else with the same problem, the package maintainer has been notified and said corrections should appear soon. – Mike W Dec 05 '20 at 19:41
  • Michael Sharpe is always very kind and quick in fixing problems. You can make a self-answer when the issue is solved, so the thread can help people who find in the same situation. – egreg Dec 05 '20 at 20:25
  • @egreg Will do. While Googling I have found out there are so many packages he's contributed, rather amazed! – Mike W Dec 05 '20 at 20:37

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This is a self-answer. The maintainer of the package was notified of the missing font files and he kindly and promptly updated the package.

I used sudo tlmgr update baskervaldx to install the update.

[Caveat: tlmgr was complaining my local version was 2017 and thus an older release (2017 < 2020). This wasn't the case as I only recently installed TeXLive 2020. I then found out I had to 'sudo su' it, since the distribution is under /usr/local/texlive/. But then the $PATH environmental variable stored in my ~/.bashrc is apparently not used in root mode, so I had to manually and explicitly export $PATH in my terminal again.]

I then did sudo texhash and sudo updmap-sys to refresh everything.

[Caveat: Initially I got the error message mktexpk: perhaps Baskervaldx-Ita-tosf-swash-t1--base is missing from the map file. even though Baskervaldx-Ita-tosf-swash-t1--base.tfm etc. could be found under my distribution after the update. I then came across this post, Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?, and did mv -n $(dirname $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFVAR)) $(dirname $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFVAR)).bkup (near the bottom of the top answer to the linked post). After that pdfTeX compiled fine.

As a last resort, XeLaTeX with package fontspec would always work and was working before.

Mike W
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