[OS X TeX] How do I instal Mathtime fonts?

[Adrian Heathcote]

Tore---

A useful supplement to the very generous responses given here is the 
book TeX Unbound, by Alan Honig (OUP, 1998)---an excellent book that 
covers fonts *very* thoroughly and that I resorted to to solve my own 
unanswered questions.

Adrian Heathcote


On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 09:05 AM, Tore Haug-Warberg wrote:

> Bruno and Michael:
>
> I am still confused (but much less so than 8 hours ago). PostScript 
> fonts require two separate files, one outline file (.pfb) and one 
> metrics file (.pfm), right? I assume that the .pfm can be converted to 
> TeX metrics (.tfm), but what about .pfb? I expect it's here the real 
> work is burried and consequently that .pfb files have a certain marked 
> potential. Bruno mentioned CMacTeX as a possible source for .pfb files, 
> but I'm a Mac newbie and have no previous Mac installation of TeX 
> (could not find any PostScript fonts on my teTeX distribution either). 
> Should I buy the .pfb files from Y&Y, or maybe Blue Sky Research, or is 
> there a clone which can be downloaded? And since we are talking fonts:
>
> 1) It is PostScript 1 and not PostScript 3?
> 2) Is TrueType a viable option to PostScript fonts, or is PostScript 
> "state-of-the-art".
> 3) Finally, I might consider converting to Lucida if that makes life 
> easier (please convince me - it's not very hard).
>
> Yours, Tore.
>
> PS. I am responding to both of you in one single mail, please correct 
> me if I am abusing the rules of this list.
>
>
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