[OS X TeX] Using fonts from Word in LaTeX

[William F. Adams]

On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at 01:30  AM, Ian Barnes wrote:

> I've seen a few web pages about installing Garamond for LaTeX on a 
> Mac, but they all start from buying it from Adobe. Call me naive, but 
> I don't see why I should have to pay hundreds of dollars to Adobe to 
> buy the font, when I already have it on my computer. I just want to 
> use it for typesetting rather than word processing.

The thing is, not unsurprisingly, a font bundled with a word processor 
probably isn't really meant for typesetting.

Take a look at two of the didactic pieces in my portfolio:

``Typeface Terminology''
``One Typeface: Many Fonts''

to see the difference between the Garamond which you have and Adobe 
Garamond which was the first Adobe Original and re-drawn by Robert 
Slimbach and outfitted with amenities appropriate for typesetting.

William

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