[OS X TeX] Re: fourier again

William F. Adams wadams at atlis.com
Mon Jun 14 10:30:33 EDT 2004


On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 06:44  AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> I think for TeX on OS X and PostScript fonts, you should ask for the 
> Windows packages (the Mac ones are for OS 9),

That (getting the Windows Type 1 version .pfb / .pfm pair (hopefully w/ 
a matching .afm) ) would be most expedient / quickest / easiest. Get 
the expert version while you're at it for the typographic niceties it 
affords.

> and that for OpenType fonts you can use the Mac packages, but I'm not 
> sure.

OpenType fonts should be platform-agnostic, and Mac should be identical 
to Windows and vice versa. (Nice to buy the Mac maybe to ensure 
continued testing / development on the Mac platform).

William

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