> I am sorry if this is a silly question. > > I have spent several hours on this, and read all the documentation that I > can find (not all of which I understand), and still can't get this to work :-( > > I have installed teTeX from the Mandriva 2006.0 RPM database on to my > Mandriva 2006.0 system. I have made NO changes to the installed files. The > RPM creates a system-wide texmf tree rooted in /usr/share/texmf. > > I want to use a Garamond typeface, and discovered the URW Garamond No. 8 > type 1 files at TUG > (https://www.tug.org/tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond/). > > I create a directory ~/texmf as the root for a local texmf tree that is > just for me, not for the entire system. > > I have carefully followed the instructions in README.garamond in that > directory, using ~/texmf as the root for the texmf tree (including running > texhash and updmap exactly as described in README.garamond). > > Now I actually want to use the typeface in my plain TeX file. > > Problem: I don't know what to use in the line: > \font\rm=<something> > Normally, for Computer Modern, one would just put: > \font\rm=cmr10 > > I have all kinds of things for <something>, but none of hem work. For example: > \font\rm=garamond > \font\rm=ugm > \font\rm=ugmr8a > \font\rm=ugmr8c
the distribution is aimed at latex, for which there are .fd files so that you can simply select the font using the standard mechanisms. unfortunately, the distribution doesn't contain the ot1 encoding that plain tex is by default stuck with, but you should get some way with ugmr8t (regular) ugmri8t (italic) ugmm8t (medium) ugmmi8t (medium italic) however, the fact that you get failures with ugmr8a seems to imply that you've not installed the .tfm/.vf files from ugm.zip, or that you've not done the texhash updmap --enable Map ugm.map step from the readme file. the problem is that these are all t1-encoded fonts, and by default plain tex wants ot1; as a result, some things are going to behave oddly -- but plain text ought to be ok. you can configure a plain tex system to deal with t1 fonts by using the ofs package (macros/plain/ofs), but i've never used it and don't know how it deals with "foreign" fonts like this. there is what looks like good documentation on ctan. distribution is at macros/generic/ofs btw, best to ask questions like this on the texhax mailing list (see www.tug.org for sign-up to that list) or on the newsgroup comp.text.tex (available via google groups if you don't have a news server to hand).
