[OS X TeX] Utopia Fonts

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.01.2008 um 12:19 schrieb Holger Frauenrath:

> Well, I understood from the fourier package description that it  
> only supports 4 of these, and that you will have to buy the  
> commercial fonts if you want to use the "expert" options. Is that  
> wrong?

I don't know. I never had a problem – because I do not write so much  
maths! My advice is to try out whether free Fourier does *not*  
provide some symbol.

>
>> I don't think so. Mac OS X is not really supporting PostScript  
>> Type 1 fonts. When they come wrapped into an OpenType (OTF)  
>> format, then they will be useful.
>
> ... so what exactly are the "Mac Postscript Type 1" fonts which are  
> sold by Adobe good for (except for being "misused" in LaTeX ;-)
>


Could be these are stale ads from the time when Mac OS X did not  
exist. Could be the problem is with encodings! The Adobe standard  
encoding of text fonts could be easily understood by Mac OS X, but  
what is with the arbitrary encodings of TeX symbolic fonts or those  
"expert encoding fonts?" Try to double-click a TeX symbolic or math  
font to integrate it into the system (~/Library/Fonts). You could  
also use one of the free ones from Fourier. Then try to set some math  
with this font in Pages!

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   Pete

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