2012/11/16 Philip TAYLOR <[email protected]>: > Dear Maria -- > >> I am contacting you regarding an enquiry we have on installing fonts in >> latex. >> >> We are working in UNIX environment and we would like to install a custom >> font in latex. Is it possible to install a custom font? If so, could you >> please guide us through? In order to install a custom font what should >> be the file extension? > > > I know nothing about Unix, but if there is a version of XeTeX which > runs under XeTeX, then XeLaTeX may be your preferred solution. XeTeX > understands system fonts, so provided that your custom font is > already in system format (Truetype, Opentype, whatever), then all > that will be needed is to install the font wherever your system > fonts live, using its canonical extension. > That's the easiest way. If you want to use the old way, you have to prepare the tfm files, map file and fd file, optionally vf file and/or enc file. There are some limitations in the tfm file (especially the maximum number of distinct heights) and the non-TeX fonts may have too much distinct heights. The files may need some hand tuning. I would suggest to follow the XeLaTeX way. LuaLaTeX can use such fonts as well, it is only useful to run mkluatexfontdb.
The system fonts may reside anywhere under /usr/share/fonts (or any other directory known by your fonconfig) > XeTeX list cc'd as you may wish to follow up there. > > Philip Taylor > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
