[OS X TeX] Computer Modern Font Catalog Installation

Arcadio Rubio García arcadiorubiogarcia at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 12:50:11 EDT 2008


El 10/06/2008, a las 18:48, Franck Pastor escribió:

>
> Le 10-juin-08 à 18:24, Franck Pastor a écrit :
>
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>> Le 10-juin-08 à 17:45, Arcadio Rubio García a écrit :
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>>> 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”)

Yes, I had already realized :)

Thanks again


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