[OS X TeX] Help: Mathtime

[Adrian Heathcote]

Just on the purchasing question.

I've been in contact with Y&Y recently over their neglect of their Mac 
customers. Their site is very Windoze friendly and gives scant 
information for Mac users. Also Windoze users are able to download fonts 
through digital river, whereas mac users get them sent, by post and at 
considerable cost to overseas customers, on a floppy disc with the fonts 
on that. (Not even on CD!).

Y&Y (very nice and apologetic) have promised to upgrade their service 
for Mac users very soon.

However, it seems to me that users of TeXShop shouldn't need special Mac 
fonts. The fonts aren't going into any of the various system font 
folders are not being read as standard fonts. They go in the various 
folders of teTeX and are read by it alone. So the instructions for 
install should be as per any other teTeX-UNIX set up.

Can someone confirm that this is so? If it is then the installation 
instructions should come as part of GW's distribution.

HTH

Adrian Heathcote


On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 05:27 AM, Mark William Bannar-Martin wrote:

> I am using LaTeX and TeXShop. I used the line \usepackage{times} and 
> the text was set in times as anticipated. I used the line 
> \usepackage{times,mathtime} with text and mathematics --- again the 
> text was set in times but the mathematical symbols were missing. I have 
> since learned that the mathtime font set must be purchased from Y&Y 
> tex.  I have two questions:
>
> 1) Is it an easy matter to install these mathtime fonts for use with 
> PdfTeX and TeXShop?
> 2) Is it an easy matter to use these mathtime fonts to label Adobe 
> Illustrator diagrams?
>
> Any advice on the limitations or advantages of times and mathtime would 
> be most welcome. I am looking for a font-mathfont combination with a 
> heavier weight than CM. Suggestions on other font combinations would be 
> appreciated.
>
> Mark.
>
>
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