[OS X TeX] MathTimes Pro

[Richard Seguin]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:
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>> On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
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>>> On Dec 13, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 13, 2007, at 4:14 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Are there any problems using these fonts on a Mac?
>>>>>
>>>>>                jem
>>>>
>>>> I have MathTime Pro Lite (from PC TEX) and they work fine on the  
>>>> mac under MacTex (and previously under Gerben's setup).
>>>
>>> I am using the MathTime Professional 2 fonts (also from PCTeX <http://www.pctex.com/mtpro2.html 
>>> >) on a very large project and they are working beautifully.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Gary
>>
>> How tedious and difficult are these to install? I have as yet to  
>> use anything but standard CM math fonts. How does one tell LaTeX to  
>> use the MathTimes Pro fonts rather than CM fonts? Is this a one  
>> line entry in the document?
>
>
> They were quite easy to install. Very complete instructions have  
> been posted on the list by Bruno Voisin, though he includes  
> information that would not be needed if you buy the fonts from  
> PCTeX, don't need to convert old fonts, need plain TeX support, etc.  
> For me, it was simply a matter of moving the files to all the right  
> places in:
>
> ~/Library/texmf/
>
> and then enabling the appropriate font maps using (in the Terminal):
>
> sudo updmap-sys --disable belleek.map
>
> and:
>
> sudo updmap-sys --enable Map mtpro2.map
>
> Once this is all done, you can use the fonts by simply adding:
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{mtpro2}
>
> to your document preamble. For example, I use:
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{textcomp}
> \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}
> \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet}
> \usepackage[mtpscr,mtpcal,slantedGreek,zswash,subscriptcorrection] 
> {mtpro2}
>
> which selects T1 encoding, the additional text companion symbols,  
> and loads
> MathTımeProfessional along with Adobe Times (ptm) and Helvetica. It  
> leaves the the default typewriter font (CM Typewriter) unchanged. As  
> you can see, it also adds a bunch of options to the mtpro2 package.
>
> If you decide to get the fonts and have trouble installing them, let  
> me know and I can put together a list of what I have and where it is  
> located.
>
> All the best,
>  Gary

Thanks Gary! I'm going to seriously consider obtaining these fonts.

Richard