On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference. I'm using lualatex to
> produce pdf.
>
> In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If I don't
> check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do check 'use
> non-TeX fonts', the fonts look much thinner and to my eye not very
> pleasing. Again I have not changed any font settings from defaults.
>
>
> And that’s why they don’t look good. You need to choose one from the
> drop-down list. The problem with using non-TeX fonts is that there might
> not be a corresponding math font. One that does have a math font and that
> looks quite nice is Cambria. If you are using MacOS or Windows you should
> have it on your machine if you’ve installed Office 365 or a standalone of
> any of the usual Microsoft applications. To get the corresponding math font
> once you’ve selected Cambria from the drop-down, add the following to the
> preamble:
>
> \usepackage{unicode-math}
> \setmathfont{Cambria Math}
>
> If you’re using Linux, there are instructions to be found on the interwebs
> for installing the Microsoft fonts Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas. They are
> extracted from the old PowerPoint Viewer, which Microsoft released for free
> and hence (so I recall gathering from discussions in various forums) can be
> extracted and used legally.
>
> Thanks! I am on linux (fedora). I found instructions to install
msfonts. Now I have Cambria, but it seems not Cambria math?
Package fontspec Error: The font "CambriaMath" cannot be found.
Any hints?
In /usr/share/fonts/mscorefonts I have
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 331916 Sep 26 2006 cambriab.ttf
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 336812 Aug 9 2006 cambriai.ttf
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 326024 Aug 9 2006 cambriaz.ttf
(along with others not starting with 'cambrai')
>
>
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