[OS X TeX] Good bye!

[Hans van Maanen]

Hi --

And what, Will,  am I doing wrong if my Console window fills with empty 
rectangles and can't be stopped? Sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes, I 
think with scaling, it does...

Hans

On 30 jan 2005, at 13:42, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2005, at 10:50 PM, Arno Kruse wrote:
>
>> Other fonts I tried to install: No one works. No one!
>> During the last six weeks I have tried intensively to learn the way 
>> TeX works with fonts.
>
> It is indeed antiquated. I never progressed very far once I realised 
> how much work it required. But that was before XeTeX: somehow I seem 
> to have missed your font adventures up until now and haven't had the 
> chance to loudly proclaim "if you want to use Mac OS X fonts in TeX, 
> you must use XeTeX -- it's the easiest thing in the world!".
>
>> Should a genius write a program that enables a "normal" user to use 
>> common fonts, I shall be back immediately.
>
> That is XeTeX, and Jonathan Kew is the genius. Visit 
> <scripts.sil.org/xetex> to read more, then install it with 
> i-Installer.
>
> Then visit the website again and go to the "Related Packages" page and 
> download the utf8accents package and the fontspec package.
>
> Once they're installed (~/Library/tex/xetex/ should work fine), you 
> can write a minimal document like this:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setromanfont{Hoefler Text}
> \begin{document}
> My first XeLaTeX document, typeset in the Mac OS X font ``Hoefler 
> Text''.
> \end{document}
>
> ANY font that is installed in Mac OS X may be accessed in a similar 
> manner. Best of luck!
>
> Will
>
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