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

[Gary L. Gray]

> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] How install Sharpe's font trees?
> Date: March 9, 2014 at 4:08:05 PM EDT
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> 
> 
> On Mar 9, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Gary L. Gray <gray at psu.edu> wrote:
> 
>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>> From: Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] How install Sharpe's font trees?
>>> Date: March 9, 2014 at 1:39:58 PM EDT
>>> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> I have installed garamondx and it works fine with pretty standard LaTeX using just (I love garamond):
>> 
>> \usepackage[full]{textcomp}
>> \usepackage{garamondx}
>> 
>> When I try and kick it up a notch and change that to (so that mathematics will be set garamond rather than in computer modern):
>> 
>> \usepackage[full]{textcomp}
>> \usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
>> \usepackage{garamondx}
>> 
>> then even $x_y$ causes LaTeX to throw a fatal error. Here is a minimal example:
>> 
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage[full]{textcomp}
>> \usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
>> \usepackage{garamondx}
>> \begin{document}
>> $x_y$
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> and the error I get is:
>> 
>> !pdfTeX error: /usr/texbin/pdflatex (file ugmri8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font
>> file for reading
>> ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> 
>> Do you know what the problem might be?
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
> 
> Hi Gary,
> 
> That error seems to be  because you are loading the mathdesign package for math, which requires that you install garamond as well as garamondx with getnonfreefonts. My preference is to use the preamble
> 
> \usepackage{garamondx}
> \usepackage[garamondx,bigdelims]{newtxmath}
> \useosf
> 
> which does not depend on the ugm*8a.pfb.

Whoa! That looks fantastic!

I installed garamond and can now use either, though I will go with your preference.

Thank you so much.

Gary