[XeTeX] XeTeX and Fink

[Jonathan Kew]

Hi Matija,

Thanks for this, that's very helpful. If it's OK with you, I'll try to 
incorporate this into the next release, so that the installer can 
handle either setup.

Regarding math: changing fonts is a complex business, because math 
typesetting uses a coordinated set of several fonts, not just a single 
font, and math fonts require additional font parameters that regular 
text fonts don't have. But in LaTeX, at least, I believe there's a 
package that switches to the Euler family for math; something like

	\usepackage{euler}

will probably do it. There may be other packages that support other 
typeface families, too; I'm not a LaTeX user and know very little about 
what's available.

Regards,

Jonathan

On 21 May 2004, at 5:53 am, Matija Pretnar wrote:

> I have a Fink installed tex and the differences are:
> texmf.local is replaced by texmf-local
> texmf.cnf is located in /sw/share/texmf/web2c/
> fmtutil.cnf is located in /sw/var/lib/texmf/web2c/
>
> I modified the install scripts and it works fine.
> If you have the courage to try them, copy XeTeX.pkg to disk and 
> right-click (control-click) on it and select 'Show Package Contents'.
> Then go to Contents/Resources and replace existing postflight and 
> preflight scripts with the attached ones.
> Try only if you know what you are doing. I don't, but I try to do my 
> best.
> This is for XeTeX 0.7
>
> By the way: how to change the font used for math variables in LaTeX? 
> Is it possible to change greek letters also?
>
> Cheers, Matija
>
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