[OS X TeX] Hoefler...again

[Casper Lassenius]

Thanks, I'll take a look at XeTeX. Sounds promising!

Casper.

> 
>> I have unsuccessfully tried to make Hoefler Text work in LaTeX. Having
>> read
>> the archives, and tried both the .dfont->ttf->ttf2tex and the
>> .dfont->ptype1
>> route explained in Bruno Voisin's Font tutorial, I am beginning to be
>> desperate.
>> 
>> My problem is the same as a previous poster's: lots of missing glyphs,
>> including ligatures, hyphens, quotes and numbers. The glyphs that do
>> show up
>> *do* look very nice...
> 
> Here I'm afraid I cannot help. The tutorial I once wrote was tested by
> myself only for some Mac OS Classic fonts (MathTime and Lucida,
> actually), and for some others in OS X TrueType or PostScript Type 1
> format (such as Arial or Times New Roman).
> 
> For the more recent fonts specific to OS X, including Hoefler Text,
> Optima or Trebuchet MS, I am now using XeTeX for which no font
> "pre-processing" is necessary. Thus I must say I don't feel the
> motivation anymore for trying to make them work with standard TeX.
> XeTeX has its own set of problems, due to its pre-release state (for
> example it doesn't work well with traditional (La)TeX input such as
> \'e, \c c, -- or \S and expects everything to be Unicode instead in the
> input file, namely é ç ­ and § here), but the situation is rapidly
> improving (there is even a fix for the above shortcoming, thanks to
> Ross Moore). Moreover, by not requiring any font conversion, XeTeX
> avoids any licensing issue potentially associated with the conversion.
> 
> For Hoefler Text all you need to do, XeTeX-wise, is put in the preamble:
> 
> \DeclareFontFamily{U}{hoefler}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{hoefler}{m}{n}%
>        {<-> "Hoefler\space Text"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{hoefler}{m}{it}%
>        {<-> "Hoefler\space Text\space Italic"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{hoefler}{bx}{n}%
>        {<-> "Hoefler\space Text\space Black"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{hoefler}{b}{n}%
>        {<-> ssub * hoefler/bx/n}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{hoefler}{bx}{it}%
>        {<-> "Hoefler\space Text\space Black\space Italic"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{hoefler}{b}{it}%
>        {<-> ssub * hoefler/bx/it}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{hoefler}{m}{sc}%
>        {<-> "Hoefler\space Text:Letter\space Case=Small\space Caps"}{}
> \renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{U}
> \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{hoefler}
> 
> and let XeTeX and Mac OS X take care of the rest.
> 
> Similarly for Optima you would write:
> 
> \DeclareFontFamily{U}{optima}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{optima}{m}{n}%
>    {<-> "Optima\space Regular"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{optima}{m}{it}%
>    {<-> "Optima\space Italic"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{optima}{bx}{n}%
>    {<-> "Optima\space Bold"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{optima}{b}{n}%
>    {<-> ssub * optima/bx/n}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{optima}{bx}{it}%
>    {<-> "Optima\space Bold\space Italic"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{optima}{b}{it}%
>    {<-> ssub * optima/bx/it}{}
> \renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{U}
> \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{optima}
> 
> and for Trebuchet MS:
> 
> \DeclareFontFamily{U}{trebuchet}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{trebuchet}{m}{n}%
>    {<-> "Trebuchet\space MS"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{trebuchet}{m}{it}%
>    {<-> "Trebuchet\space MS\space Italic"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{trebuchet}{bx}{n}%
>    {<-> "Trebuchet\space MS\space Bold"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{trebuchet}{b}{n}%
>    {<-> ssub * trebuchet/bx/n}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{trebuchet}{bx}{it}%
>    {<-> "Trebuchet\space MS\space Bold\space Italic"}{}
> \DeclareFontShape{U}{trebuchet}{b}{it}%
>    {<-> ssub * trebuchet/bx/it}{}
> \renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{U}
> \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{trebuchet}
> 
> etc.
> 
> Bruno Voisin
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