[OS X TeX] RE: Newbie TeTex font installation

Arno Kruse arnokruse at macnews.de
Fri Nov 18 05:18:02 EST 2005


Am 18.11.2005 um 02:20 schrieb Jeff Genung:

> I am disappointed that Thomas Schmitz says that using a new font in  
> LaTeX is
> not difficult, then presents a 16 page set of instructions on how  
> to do it.
> YES, it is difficult, it is very difficult.

I do agree. Yesterday I have tried again to persuade LaTeX: Please,  
let me use Cairo (my students and I especially love the neat dug)! I  
accurately followed the set of instructions, got several interesting  
files, wrote a .sty file (!!), installed these files - but it was the  
same depressing result as so often before: I saw a horrible lot of  
blatancy - but my Mac rumored - then, really!, an output - a ray of  
hope - oh: a white page. Looked fine for me, but was not the result I  
asked for.

> If someone would like to write a simple set of instructions I would  
> like to
> see it, to add either a TT font or a postscript font, but as for me  
> I'll let
> another year pass where everything I've written has been in what  
> was already
> installed.

XeLaTeX seems to solve the font install problem, but I cannot use it  
because there are many mistakes concerning mathematics. So I wait and  
hope. Hope and wait patiently. Textures was able to handle fonts, but  
that is foretime… LaTeX and fonts - a never ending disaster.

Arno


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