[OS X TeX] Another math font for MinionPro

[Michael Sharpe]

On May 10, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Nestor E. Aguilera wrote:

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> On 10 May 2012, at 02:40, Michael Sharpe wrote:
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>> You may find it easier to install support from minion.zip at
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>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3825336/TeX/index.html
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>> It's assumed that you have a recent version of the four basic MinionPro otf fonts, perhaps from Adobe Reader. You need to convert each of them to pfb format using
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>> cfftot1 MinionPro-Regular.otf MinionPro-Regular.pfb
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>> etc, unless the .pfb already exists in your texmf forest. Otherwise, copy the pfb files into fonts/type1/adobe/minion folder.   In a Terminal window, cd to inside the expanded minion.zip (you should see only folders named fonts and tex) and type
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>> sudo cp -Rf * /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
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>> or the equivalent command you use for font installation, then
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>> sudo mktexlsr
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>> and finally
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>> sudo -H updmap-sys --enable Map=minion.map
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>> after which you should be able to say
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>> \usepackage{minion}
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>> without invoking MnSymbol.
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> OK! Now I don't get the "pmnj" errors, but I still get complaints on "nxlmi", and the suggestion that it might be "missing from the map file".
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Hi Nestor,

the virtual font nxlmi (a tfm,vf pair) is part of the distribution, so it is possible that there is something wrong with its installation. 

Things to try in a Terminal window:

Just to be sure the lsr databases are updated,

sudo mktexlsr

Then 

kpsewhich nxlmi.tfm 

which I expect will return nothing, 

find /usr/local/texlive//texmf-local -name nxlmi.tfm

may return some permission denied error messages, but, if newts was properly installed, should return something like

/usr/local/texlive//texmf-local/fonts/tfm/public/ntx/nxlmi.tfm (the /ntx/ may be /newtx/.)
If not, the tfm is in the wrong place and the entire newts distribution should be reinstalled. 

Michael