Steve Litt <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:06:21 +0200 > Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 29 September 2013, 12:51:39 schrieb Steve Litt: >> > Where can I find instructions telling me how to use Liberation Mono, >> > Liberation Sans, and Liberation Serif in LaTeX and LyX? These are >> > completely free software equivalents of Courier New, Ariel, and >> > Times New Roman respectively, and I use them a lot to limit legal >> > entanglements. >> >> I suppose you need to use XeTeX or LuaTeX (i.e., "non-TeX fonts") in >> order to use Liberation fonts with LaTeX. >> >> If you are looking for good, free alternatives for the mentioned >> commercial fonts, have a look at the TeX Gyre fonts >> >> http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/tgtermes/ >> http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/tgheros/ >> http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/tgcursor/ >> >> > Also, does anyone know a free and open equivalent of Century >> > Schoolbook, and how to install it for LaTeX and LyX? >> >> http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/newcent/ >> >> Bot the TeXGyre fonts and newcent will be natively supported by LyX >> (via Document > Settings > Fonts) >> >> Jürgen > > After an hour of searching, I'm having a little trouble here. I > download a font. Now...
If I remember correctly (I haven't installed fonts in a long time), you can right click on the font in nautilus and open it with the font viewer. In the font viewer, you have a button to install the font. >From then on, it should be available for all programs. But as I said, I haven't done this for quite some time. Cheers, Rainer > > * Where do I put the downloaded file? > * By what procedure do I install it so LyX/LaTeX sees it when I check > non-TeX and open the dropdown? > * Where can I find detailed info on exactly how to use fontinst? The > man page is useless, and I found little on the Internet. > * I'm supposed to use fonttool, and I installed it on my Ubuntu 12.10 > box, but there's no program called fonttool, and no indication > anywhere as how to use fonttool. > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> -- Rainer M. Krug email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com
