[OS X TeX] Definitive font guide, please?

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On Tue 23rd Dec, 2008 at 15:21, Peter C. Lichtner seems to have written:

> I also obtained an error trying:
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[urw-garamond]{mathdesign}
>
> but then I tried: getnonfreefonts --all, and it then worked, but get several 
> errors:
>
>
> Package 'vntex-nonfree':
> ========================
>
> % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
> Current
>                                Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100   328  100   328    0     0    498      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 
> 0
> [vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip]
> End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip or
>       vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip.zip, and cannot find 
> vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip.ZIP, period.
> File 'vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip' seems to be broken.  Please try again.
> Extracting 'vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip'... 
> [vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip]
> End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip or
>       vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip.zip, and cannot find 
> vntex-nonfree-3.1.3.zip.ZIP, period.
> [done]

In this case, it looks as though the archive for vntex-nonfree got
corrupted during the download. I checked the original archive and
unzipped it by hand and the original seems to be OK. Just one of those
things, maybe?

>
> ...
>
> Package 'webomints':
> ====================
>
> % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
> Current
>                                Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100 91960  100 91960    0     0  36963      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 
> 46810
> 9eb1d72394e0cf18811072471e8723a4  webomints.zip             [MD5sum ok]
>
> Extracting 'webomints.zip'...                               [done]
> Installing 'webo.map'...                                    [done]
>
> texhash: Updating /Users/lichtner/Library/texmf/ls-R...
> texhash: Done.
>
> Updating map files (updmap)...
> !!! ERROR! The map file `classicovn.map' has not been found at all.
>
>   Either put this file into the right place or remove the
>   reference from the configuration file. An automatic way
>   to disable unavailable map files is to call
>     updmap --syncwithtrees
>
>   For manual editing, call
>     updmap --edit
>
> [failed]

This follows on from the earlier issue. This map file is part of the
corrupt archive. But the script obviously isn't smart enough not to try
enabling maps for things it failed to completely install so it tells
updmap to enable it anyway and updmap complains.

Rerunning the script to install vntex-nonfree or specifying it as the
target is one option. Unless you want those fonts, though, updmap
--syncwithtrees is likely easier.

Note that getnonfreefonts is not MacTeX-friendly. It is running texhash
on a user texmf directory which isn't necessary. Shouldn't hurt
anything, though.

You may find, though, that you have *part* of vntex-nonfree installed.
If so and you do want it, you may have to force g getnonfreefonts to
install it if it thinks it is already installed.
getnonfreefonts -l
will show this (without making any changes - it just lists available
fonts and whether they are installed in the target TeX tree).

- cfr

>
> ...Peter
>