[lucida] Lucida Bright installation trouble on Debian

[Michael Palmer]

On August 10, 2009 02:22:27 pm Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> > I'm trying to install the Lucida fonts from TUG on debian lenny /
> > texlive,
>
> Thanks for supporting TUG.
>
> > found. In addition, I'm a bit foggy about the significance of the
> > lucida.sty package - is there any such package, or should I use another
> > one? Can anyone tell me how do diagnose the problem?
>
> I and my professor wrote lucida.sty many years ago for LaTeX 2.09.
> There's no reason to use it now.  The lucida-sample.tex files uses
> lucidabr, not lucida:
>
> \usepackage[altbullet]{lucidabr}
>
> Does the lucida-sample.tex in the zip file we gave you really
> \usepackage{lucida}?  I'm not seeing that ...
>
> But anyway, I think the answer is to \usepackage{lucidabr} and be happy :).

thanks for the clarification. 

>
> Best,
> Karl



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