[OS X TeX] GTA Georgia

Nathan Paxton napaxton at fas.harvard.edu
Sun May 10 00:18:24 CEST 2009


	Excellent! That worked perfectly!

	I'm gonna ask another font question in another thread....

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Nathan A. Paxton
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Government, Harvard University

Resident Tutor
John Winthrop House, Harvard University

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On 9 May 2009, at 4:38 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

>
> On May 9, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Nathan Paxton wrote:
>
>> 	Hi all,
>>
>> 	I'm having trouble getting the GTA Georgia font to work. I've  
>> included a minimal file and log.
>>
>> 	I know I can go the Xetex route, but would prefer not to for the  
>> time being (I have a huge file that creates lots of warnings and  
>> errors in xe(la)tex and I don't want to debug it right now).
>>
>> 	It seems like there are no files in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ 
>> doc/fonts/gtamacfonts/georgia and so forth. Why would this happen  
>> if I used GW's i-installer GTA package?
>>
> Nathan,
>
> The i-Installer script fails for three of the fonts. Georgia.ttf and  
> Verdana.ttf and their relatives are Windows ttfs, with no resource  
> forks, so fondu fails.
>
> To get Georgia working correctly, do the following.
>
> 1. Copy the four ttf files in /Library/Fonts/ with names beginning  
> 'Georgia' to the desktop.
> 2. Remove all spaces from their names.
> 3. Copy the new files to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/ 
> truetype/gtamacfonts/georgia.
> 4. In a terminal window, type sudo mktexlsr.
>
> You can do the analogous operations for Verdana, if you care. If you  
> need HelveticaNeue, which is in /System/Library/Fonts, not /Library/ 
> Fonts, you might find it easiest to modify the script TL-gw- 
> extras.configure, located inside the package TL-gw-extras.ii2, and  
> correct the path to the font. Make sure to erase the helveticaneue  
> folders in truetype/gtamacfonts and afm/gtamacfonts before re- 
> running the i-Installer.
>
> After making these changes, add the line
>
> usepackage{texnansi}
>
> before
>
> \usepackage{gtamacgeorgia}
>
> Michael
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