On Feb 27, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2012-02-26, Eric Weir wrote: > >> Planning to install the tex gyre fonts on my Mac, I inquired at tex on >> mac os x, I was informed that they are already installed, i.e., that >> they come with the tex live installations. So, how do I get them to >> show up as options under document > settings > fonts? > > This depends: > > * With "use non tex fonts" (i.e. XeTeX or LuaTeX with the fontspec > package), make sure that the fonts are known to the system.
Thanks, Guenter. A guy on the tex on mac osx listserv gave me a simple way to install the fonts and get them recognized on the system: start the mactex/tex live installer, deselect everything that's already selected, select the install tex gyre fonts option, complete the install. When that's done the fonts are installed in the user's system font folder, i.e., ~\library\fonts. > * With 8-bit TeX engines (latex, pdflatex), vote for the bug to include > support for more font packages (or collect money to pay someone to > implement it) ... > > For the time beeing: leave the GUI font setting at [Default] and > select the relevant font package in the user preamble. For reasons explained to me by Stefano---the main one being that the app in which I compose, Scrivener, exports unicode---I am going with xetex for compiling. Prior to that I tried a latex compile with the tex gyre specified in the preamble, but it didn't work. Got a message to the effect that "could not open 'file.dvi'". Again, thanks for responding. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir [email protected] Decatur, GA USA "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. " - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
