[OS X TeX] Linotype Palatino

[Adam M. Goldstein]

I've seen the requirement to use Linotype Palatino in other grant  
applications; it's requested if someone uses a Mac. It looks like the  
Palatino that comes with OS X is in fact Linotype Palatino. So if you  
can get that to show up in TeX then you have the font. It appears to  
be a Truetype font. It's my sense that this is possible but I don't  
really know---something about converting the metrics. Maybe Pete or  
Bruno knows what do here. Sorry I can't be more informative than  
this, but maybe this helps.

-Adam

On Jun 6, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:

>
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>
>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>
>>> Le 6 juin 07 à 22:16, Michael Kubovy a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I need to use Linotype Palatino in a grant application. I have  
>>>> included
>>>> \usepackage{palatinox}
>>>>
>>>> How can I be sure that I'm tyrpsetting with this font?
>>>>
>>>> The console says
>>>> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/Palatino-OsF/m/n' undefined
>>>> (Font)              using `T1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 32.
>>>>
>>>> Does this mean that only a few of the shapes are missing or that  
>>>> I'm not using the font at all. If the latter, how to fix? The  
>>>> only fonts allowed are Arial, Helvetica, Palatino Linotype or  
>>>> Georgia. For legibility and aesthetic reasons I'd rather not use  
>>>> Arial or Helvetica for the body of the text.
>>>
>>> Try using instead:
>>>
>>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>>> \usepackage{textcomp}
>>> \usepackage{mathpazo}
>>>
>>> This will use a public-domain Palatino clone for text, with  
>>> characters taken from Symbol for maths. See the doc of the psnfss  
>>> package psnfss2e.pdf, usually at /Library/TeX/Documentation/texmf- 
>>> dist-doc/latex/psnfss/psnfss2e.pdf.
>>>
>>> Specialists would see a difference with Linotype Palatino, but  
>>> probably not the experts evaluating the grant application.  
>>> Generally the specification of a given font is just here to  
>>> ensure that all applicants are submitting proposals subject to  
>>> the same length criteria (instead of having applicants submitting  
>>> longer proposals using tighter fonts with smaller character  
>>> sizes, smaller margins and smaller line spacing).
>>
>> This assumes that the OP is submitting a printed grant  
>> application, which is less common these days.  Depending on how  
>> hard-ass the evaluators are, this could be grounds to disqualify  
>> the grant application, since a simple command-d or control-d in  
>> Acrobat Reader will tell you what fonts are in the document.
>>
>> Do you have the commercial linotype fonts properly installed on  
>> you computer in the first place?
>
> Indeed the application will be submitted electronically. I suspect  
> that they're not *that* clever, but I'd rather be on the safe side  
> (to much work toi waste on a trivial matter).
>
> AFAIK, I don't have the commercial Linotype fonts. I have several  
> folders called Palatino. I have the following font files that  
> contain '{P|p}alatino'
> palatino-*.afm files
> palatino.tpm
> texnansi-urw-palatino.map
> ec-urw-palatino.map
> Palatino ('FFIL' in .Library/Fonts)
>
> Even though I've been using LaTeX for years, and am pretty good at  
> it, I've always had a fear of the complexity of font use, and never  
> explored this side of LaTeX. So here I had best be treated as a  
> beginner. I've never even tried XeLaTeX. I would appreciate a guide  
> for the perplexed.
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