[OS X TeX] It is possible to use UCS free Unicode fonts with XeTeX (FreeSans, FreeSerif, etc)
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Greetings,
I'm writing my doctoral thesis, which includes a large amount of
Classical Greek text. I used to use the babel package with the
"teubner" encoding, with MacOS Roman encoded files. The "teubner"
encoding was unreadable, so I switched to Unicode, so that I could
actually see the Greek that I was quoting in my text.
The fonts I chose to use are from the UCS free font collection, i.e.
FreeSans, FreeSerif and FreeMono. XeTeX *will* produce PDF files using
these fonts, if I use the command "\font\freeserif=FreeSerif at 12pt".
The problem is that mktextfm cannot generate font metrics, and thus
every time I generate the PDF file, it takes a good half a minute. The
log results I get are listed below.
My question: Has anybody been able to successfully install these fonts
with XeTeX on Mac? Or is there another font (say Gentium) that includes
the full Unicode character range that *can* be successfully installed?
I have searched everywhere for decent directions on how to do this, and
have come up dry (I'm not willing to move to Context, because I don't
want to lose my document classes).
Thanks in advance for any help...
Erik Norvelle
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Log file listing:
kpathsea: Running mktextfm FreeSerif
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation F for FreeSerif.
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FreeSerif
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.5)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf FreeSerif
! I can't find file `FreeSerif'.
<*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FreeSerif
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FreeSerif
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: FreeSerif.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input FreeSerif' failed to make FreeSerif.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
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