[texhax] Using Adobe Times, Helvetica, Courier, and Small Caps with LaTeX

Bob Tennent rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Fri Jun 10 06:01:25 CEST 2016


 >|How with current LaTeX (TeXLive 2016 ) do I get all at once:
 >|
 >|    (1) Adobe Times for normal text (along with italic, bold, and bold
 >|    italic);
 >|    (2) Adobe Courier for typewriter (along with italic, bold, and bold
 >|    italic) ;
 >|    (3) Adobe Helvetica for sans serif (along with italic, bold, and
 >|    bold italic);
 >|    (4) Adobe Small Caps for text small caps (along with bold); and
 >|    (5) MathTimePro 2 for math?
 >|
 >|I???m using the Adobe Times font files tir_____.pfb, etc.; Adobe Courier
 >|font files com_____.pfb, etc.; Adobe Helvetica font files hv______.pfb,
 >|etc.;
 >|and Adobe Small Caps font file tirsc___.pfb.
 >|
 >|And I ran updmap after adding to my local config file
 >|~/Library/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg the entry:
 >|
 >|      LW35 ADOBE
 >|
 >|Examining the .pdf output from a test file in Adobe Reader reveals that
 >|the following in preamble takes care of (1) - (3) and (5), but NOT (4):
 >|
 >|     \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
 >|     \usepackage{textcomp}
 >|     \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}
 >|     \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet}
 >|     \usepackage{courier}
 >|
 >|How can I add (4) to that?

Follow Section I of the fontinstallationguide using all of
the Adobe Times pfb and afm files.

Bob T.


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