[OS X TeX] A puzzle

[George Gratzer]

Thx

Hoo!

On Jun 2, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:

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> On Jun 2, 2014, at 9:21 AM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
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>> Actually, my symbol was as accessible as any other...
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>> But a more important question. How do you get these symbols and how do you use them in LaTeX?
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> To access arbitrary symbols from the STIX collection from LaTeX rather than XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, you need to perform all the usual font preparations expected by LaTeX. Here are the steps.
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> 1. Create the tfm with the command
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> afm2tfm STIXGeneral-Regular -T stixspecial.enc mySTIXglyphs  >stixspecial.map
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> (STIXGeneral-Regular.afm is not provided by TeXLive. I've made one for myself that you can download from
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> http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3825336/TeX/index.html
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> under the name STIXglyphs.zip. It contains all the files you need, including the encoding file containing the names of the glyphs you wish to use from STIXGeneral-Regular.pfb..)
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> 2. Edit stixspecial.map to add a space followed by <stixspecial.map to the end of the last line. (I've already done this.)
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> 3. Create an fd file like the one I've provided. 
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> 4. Define a macro to call up the glyph, adding appropriate spacing. See text.tex for a prototype.
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> 5. Install the enc, fd and tfm in the usual locations, or leave them in the same directory as your source.
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> Michael
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