[OS X TeX] How install Sharpe's font trees?

[Michael Sharpe]

On Mar 9, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to install some of Michael Sharpe's additional fonts and font-support trees, e.g., garamondx, available at http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3825336/TeX/index.html.  This is for use with TeXLive 2013 (and later!).
> 
> As always on my single-user Mac, for granular back-up purposes, want to install such additional font trees in ~/Library/texmf.
> 
> Sharpe's instructions refer to two methods for installing there:
> 
>   (i) if you checked Update for All Users in TeXLive utility
> 
>      cp -Rfp * ~/Library/texmf
> 
>   then
> 
>      updmap --enable Map=zgm.map
> 
>   (ii) otherwise
> 
>      cp -Rfp * ~/Library/texmf
> 
>   then
> 
>      sudo updmap-sys --enable Map=zgm.map
> 
> But the current TeXLive 2013 utility automatically runs updmap after it installs or updates any packages from the TeXLive repository. And I don't see any such "Update for All Users" preference in the TeXLive Utility. The preferences I do have selected are:
> 
>  + Automatically enable fonts in my home directory.
>  + Add new packages to match the server when updating.  [irrelevant here]
>  + Remove packages to match the server when updating.   [irrelevant here]
> 
> So which situation, (i) or (ii), am I in? 
> 
> Or should I merely manually edit ~/Library/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg to add the appropriate Map statements (e.g., Map zgm.map) and then run the TeXLive 2013 Utility app?
> 
> 
> -

The easiest way is to download getnonfreefonts from the TeX User Group---http://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/. To install in your home texmf folder, you would then use

getnonfreefonts garamondx

though it may be necessary to replace getnonfreefonts with its full path.

Michael