[OS X TeX] Re: Installing Fonts for LaTeX on OSX

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Wed Jul 5 06:32:08 EDT 2006 

Le 4 juil. 06 à 18:44, Dennis Kletzing a écrit :

> Thanks for responding to my email. Since my original email to you I  
> have tried different things and was finally able to get it to work  
> as follows:
>
> Create an ordinary folder in admin/Library called textmf. This  
> folder is critical. If there is no such folder, and you run
>
> sudo updmap --enable Map frutiger.map
>
> through the terminal window, it creates a textmf folder in admin/ 
> Library, but it's a smart folder (it has a small red dot on it). To  
> put stuff in it you need to go through an authentication process. I  
> think my problem was that TeXShop couldn't access this folder.
>
> Instead, manually create an ordinary folder, texmf, in admin/ 
> Library and put the font files in it following the guidelines in  
> the article Installing Fonts for LaTeX on OSX (p.6):
>
> PFB files in admin/Library/textmf/fonts/type1/adobe/frutiger
> [...]
>
> Then run sudo updmap --enable Map frtiger.map. TeXShop then  
> recognizes the new fonts and every thing is ok. I've created  
> several other fonts since frutiger, put the various font files at  
> the appropriate places in texmf, and in each case everything works  
> fine.

Glad to know you finally got things to work. I didn't suspect you had  
omitted the creation of ~/Library/texmf (I suppose that's what you  
mean by admin/Library/texmf).

In order to know where TeX and friends look for files with specific  
extensions, you can use (in Terminal) the command-line utility  
kpsewhich. Its usage is documented in section 3.5 of /Library/teTeX/ 
share/texmf.tetex/doc/programs/kpathsea.pdf. For example (. meaning  
the current directory):

$ kpsewhich --show-path=.pfb
.
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/fonts/type1//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/type1//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/fonts/type1//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1//

$ kpsewhich --show-path=.map
.
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/fonts/map//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/fonts/map//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/map//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/map//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/fontname
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fontname
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/fontname
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fontname
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fontname
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/pdftex/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/pdftex/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/pdftex/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/pdftex/config
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/dvips/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/dvips/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/dvips/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips/config
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/dvips/config
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/pdftex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/pdftex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/pdftex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/pdftex//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/dvips//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/dvips//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/dvips//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/dvips//

You can even look for the search path when using a specific  
application. Let's assume you installed XeTeX (bringing a more Mac- 
like experience to TeX, in that, for example, it allows the use of OS  
X fonts in TeX, without any prior processing, as Textures does). Then  
you get:

$ kpsewhich --progname=xelatex --show-path=.tex
.
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/xetex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/xetex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/xetex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/xetex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/xetex/xelatex//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/tex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/xelatex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/xelatex//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/xetex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/xetex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/xetex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/xetex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/xetex/latex//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/xetex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/xetex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/xetex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/xetex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/xetex/generic//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic//
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/generic//
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/xetex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/xetex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/xetex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/xetex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/xetex///
/Users/<yourusername>/Library/texmf/tex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex///
!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex///

Welcome to the world of *nix and command-line utilities!

> I've been using Textures for years and I had high hopes for the new  
> OS X version. But
> I tried it out and think it's terribly crude. So I decided to give  
> TeXShop a try. It's very nice but the unix way of handling fonts  
> etc is completely foreign to me. Now that I've got the font issue  
> resolved, things are better. Thanks again.

This summer I should have one or two months during which I'll be able  
to go back to more scientific, and less computer-oriented, work. I'll  
then forget about formatting niceties (fonts, exotic packages and the  
like), and concentrate on writing. In that occasion, I'll try to use  
OS X Textures again (provided it can include EPS or PDF images at the  
time), and investigate -- if successful -- its functionalities into  
greater detail.

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