[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] so, what to do about fonts? (was XeTeX)

[William F. Adams]

On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 08:40  AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> What's the best way to have Mac fonts like Hoefler Text, Gill Sans, 
> etc. work "out of the box" for Mac OS X TeX users?

xetex. I'll still document and bundle up my system and post it to CTAN 
for those who need things it addresses (broader compatibility, 
pre-press-ready colour handling, OTP ligature control &c.)

All we have to do is wait or Jonathan to nail down some minor niggling 
issues, bundle the source, work up a script to build a LaTeX format and 
provide LaTeX (and other) packages/macros for using the fonts all in an 
iInstaller package.

I'll do that right after I finish the TUG2003 proceedings if no one 
beats me to it. No one commented on my \typespecification idea --- is 
there no room for improvement? Or did it seem not workable?

An interesting idea would be to try to have a unified or parallel 
system for making them work in LaTeX and Context, so one could extend 
things to have:

\typespecification[latex, text, 11pt, old-style figures]{HoeflerText}

or

\typespecification[context, verse, 12pt, rebusligatures]{Zapfino}

> Gerben, did you hear back from Apple on the licensing issue involved 
> with converting the fonts?

While this'd be nice, I don't see how Apple could do this --- they 
license a lot of the fonts from outside sources who've probably set the 
terms, and I doubt Apple would backtrack on their traditional handling 
of fonts (lock down and restrict them to limit redistribution / 
re-use).

William

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