[Mac OS X TeX] Re: teTeX mod for Mac fonts (was Re: [Mac OS XTeX]Font question)

[William Adams]

Gerben said:
(re: a script for installing Mac OS X-specific fonts)
>I don't see licensing problems with a script, not with distributing
>files which are only useful if the Mac OS X fonts themselves are there
>('virtual font' like stuff)

AFAIK, one would need to actually convert the fonts into the standard
.ttf format which would be usable on other systems if transferred there,
so potentially troublesome from a licensing standpoint.

Any sort of VF-like scheme would have to be a Carbon or Java or Cocoa
program which was able to use native Mac OS X system calls to access the
fonts, a la Textures and the other Mac-specific TeX implementations.

William

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