[OS X TeX] [off-topic] best font set for using Times?

[Gary L. Gray]

On May 9, 2007, at 7:49 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On  9 May, 2007, at 06:32, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 9, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>>
>>> On  8 May, 2007, at 18:32, Gary L.Gray wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Partially answering my own question, it appears that I can  
>>>> modify the following line in texmf.cnf to fix the "Not enough  
>>>> room left." problem:
>>>>
>>>> font_mem_size = 1200000
>>>>
>>>> to be something like:
>>>>
>>>> font_mem_size = 2000000
>>>>
>>>> I have copied the file, modified the line above as shown, and  
>>>> placed it in:
>>>>
>>>> ~/Library/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>>>>
>>>> but TeX is not seeing it.
>>>>
>>>> What is the best way to modify texmf.cnf?
>>>
>>>
>>> I had the same problem. Here is Thomas A. Schmitz's reply to my  
>>> post:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Feb 28, 2007, at 2:00 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject: Font *** not loaded: Not enough room left
>>>>> From: "Axel E. Retif" <axel.retif at mac.com>
>>>>> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:07:11 -0600
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear TeXperts:
>>>>>
>>>>> Typesetting a document with MinionPro in TeXLive-2007  
>>>>> (pdfLaTeX, not
>>>>> XeLaTeX) I ran into
>>>>>
>>>>> ! Font T1/MinionPro-TOsF/bx/n/11.5=MinionPro-Semibold-tosf-t1 at
>>>>> 11.5pt not loaded: Not enough room left.
>>>>>
>>>>> It typesets fine in gwTeXLive, so I guess it's a memory problem,
>>>>> right? If so, as far as I remember, I have to increase the  
>>>>> memory in
>>>>> texmf.cnf and rebuild formats ---is this correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Axel
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that's right. Locate the texmf.cnf that your installation  
>>>> is using (kpsewhich texmf.cnf), open and edit it. The value  
>>>> you're looking for is font_mem_size (around line 520, I think),  
>>>> and you can set it to a value up to 4000000; the default is too  
>>>> low for use with fonts with extended kerning information (like  
>>>> many Adobe fonts).
>>>
>>> Now ---putting a modified texmf.cnf in ~/Library/texmf didn't  
>>> work for me. I had to modify the one in /usr/local/texlive/2007/ 
>>> texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf *and* rebuild formats.
>>
>>
>> Aha! Thank you.
>>
>> What formats need to be rebuilt? Just the ones I have created or  
>> all of them. If all of them, how does one do that?
>
> I did `` sudo fmtutil-sys --all ''. But, if I remember well, you  
> have personal formats in ~/.../web2c, right? I wouldn't know how to  
> proceed ---rebuild with `` sudo fmtutil-sys --all '' and then your  
> personal formats? I don't know.


That did it! Thank you. As for my personal format, it uses the one of  
the format I just rebuilt, so that shouldn't be a problem after I  
rebuild my personal one.

Thank you again.

All the best,
   Gary


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