[Mac OS X TeX] Type 1 PS Fonts, TeXShop/teTeX, and OS X...

[William Adams]

mccollum said:

>     I know that OS X is supposed to be able to use Mac PS and TT fonts, as
>     well as PC versions of fonts (only TT?). I am not sure how this
> support
>     carries over to the "Unix layer / command line apps" of OS X.
>
More's the pity it doesn't. QuickDraw/GX and ATSUI fonts don't get
directly enabled either :(

>   - In light of my first question, would it be preferable to move to the
>     PC versions of Type 1 fonts for use in OS X?
>
That'd be easiest if one has easy access to them, elsewise one'll be
wrestling with unadobe and all the other utils for this sort of thing.

>     My goal (for the past ten years) is to be able to use the least
> modified
>     LaTeX distribution from CTAN with a (La)TeX system on my Mac, without
>     having to continually wrestle with font issues. Any pointers?
>

Moving to teTeX/TeXShop will help a lot with this (ditto for cMacTeX
since it uses tetex as well)

William

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