[OS X TeX] Definitive font guide, please?

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On Tue 23rd Dec, 2008 at 13:11, David B. Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM...:

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> On Dec 23, 2008, at 11:42, Nestor Aguilera wrote:
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>> I do use regularly the mathdesign package. In my experience (with 
>> pdflatex), everything except the pfb files for garamond is included in 
>> texlive.
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> Excellent point. I just did some poking around in the directory structure 
> (yes, I should be working on work-work, but I'm distracted!) and found that, 
> indeed, the pfb files are not present in the fonts tree. I'm downloading from 
> CTAN now and will see if I can install them in my local texmf tree. If not, 
> I'll su and put them in the dist tree.

You might also want to try the getnonfreefonts scripts which can
automate this for a number of fonts. See:
http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php?title=Font_Tools#getnonfreefonts

- cfr

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> Maybe this will solve that particular problem.
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> I'm much farther down the road, thanks to the list.
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> Many thanks...
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> -=d
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