[OS X TeX] Computer Modern Font Catalog Installation
Franck Pastor
franck.pastor at skynet.be
Tue Jun 10 12:48:26 EDT 2008
Le 10-juin-08 à 18:24, Franck Pastor a écrit :
>
> Le 10-juin-08 à 17:45, Arcadio Rubio García a écrit :
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to find a LaTeX font that provides good math support
>> and install it as native in OS X. The reason is that I'd like to
>> use it in native programs such as OmniGraffle to produce figures
>> for my LaTeX documents.
>>
>> So far, Computer Modern seems to be the best choice provided that
>> I don't purchase any commercial fonts. Isn't it?
>>
>> CTAN has Computer Modern in TTF format, recognized by the Font
>> Catalog of OS X. However, when I install them, they aren't grouped
>> under the Computer Modern item. Instead, each of them appears as a
>> separate typeface. Does anyone know how to fix this?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> - Arcadio
>>
>
> I think it would be better to use the Latin Modern fonts, that
> exist in OpenType format. They have exactly the same shapes as the
> Computer Modern fonts, but have also much more glyphs, in
> particular almost all the accented and diacritical characters used
> by any Latin-alphabet-based European language.
>
> If you have MacTeX installed on your computer, you can retrieve the
> Latin Modern Opentype fonts at /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-
> distfonts/opentype/public/lm and install then in your local Library/
> fonts directory (for example).
>
> HTH,
>
> Franck Pastor
Sorry, the true path is:
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm
(I forgot the slash between “texmf-dist” and “fonts”)
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