[OS X TeX] Type Classics for Learning

[Fredrik Wallenberg]

Has anyone does anything similar for LaTeX? I am sure there are many of 
us that have bought the ATC collection but are somewhat intimidated by 
the process of getting them "ready" for LaTeX use.

Fredrik


On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:25, Jon Breitenbucher wrote:

> I have posted fd files for a number of the fonts in the Adobe Type 
> Classics collection. I used examples by Bruce D'Arcus as a starting 
> point. These should probably be considered as a starting point as well 
> with more work needed. Obviously one must own the fonts in order to 
> use them with XeTeX. You can grab the fd files at
>
> http://jbreitenbuch.wooster.edu/~jonb/AdobeTypeClassicsplus.zip
>
> Enjoy.
>
> On Jun 28, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Jon Breitenbucher wrote:
>
>> On Jun 28, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Peder Axensten wrote:
>>
>>> Jon, would you mind sharing these .fd files?
>>>
>>
>> I am in the process of cleaning up the .fd files. I plan on putting 
>> together files for Adobe Garamond Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Jenson 
>> Pro, Warnock Pro, Utopia Std, Prestige Elite Std, News Gothic Std, 
>> Sanvito Pro, Myriad Pro, Minion Pro, Cronos Pro, Courier Std, and 
>> Chaparral Pro. Some of these include optical variants, which I will 
>> use. I think the Std fonts lack some of the glyphs found in their 
>> Postscript Expert versions. The Pro fonts would correspond to the 
>> Expert version of the Postscript font. Someone please correct me if 
>> this is incorrect.
>>
>> So far these fonts are working very nicely with XeTeX. I am not sure 
>> if XeTeX is recognizing all of the OpenType features. However, swash 
>> is the only feature I have had trouble with so far.
>>
>> I hope to make them available by the end of the week.
>> ___________________________________
>> Error message Haiku:
>> Yesterday it worked.
>> Today it is not working.
>> Windows is like that.
>>
>> Jon Breitenbucher
>> The College of Wooster
>> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
>> Wooster, Ohio 44691
>>
>> (330)263-2207
>> jbreitenbuch at wooster.edu
>> http://jbreitenbuch.wooster.edu/~jonb
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> Jon Breitenbucher
> The College of Wooster
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Wooster, Ohio 44691
>
> (330)263-2207
> jbreitenbuch at wooster.edu
> http://jbreitenbuch.wooster.edu/~jonb
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