[OS X TeX] Initials - fonts

[George Ghio]

Ah, I didn't. The installation was from Texlive08.
Let's make no bones about it, I use TeX but am a fair ways from  
understanding it. I can find some of the files but it is hit and miss.  
I really just don't understand the structure.

Library/TeX/TeXmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/initials.

Library/TeX/TeXmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/initials.

It always seems that the person who writes the documentation assumes  
that the reader already knows as much as the author. (Sigh) Such is  
life.

As far as I understand it I did a full install. I suppose the first  
step is "Where should the files be?"

Any help is gratefully accepted.

George

On 15/07/2009, at 3:21 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:17 AM, George Ghio wrote:
>
>> Hi Looks like I'm in the poop again, nothing new there.
>>
>> The problem - I wish to use the Initials fonts in conjunction with  
>> Letterine  as per sample;
>>
>> \lettrine[lines=2, lraise=0.2, findent=0.2em, nindent=0em] 
>> {\textfrak{W}}{e think of the} twentieth century as the beginning  
>> of a new period and the ending of the old, but this is really a  
>> paradox of statements. History cannot end, it can evolve or change  
>> directions but as long as man is on earth, history will exist.  
>> Admittedly, a social `epoch' was coming to an end and with it, a  
>> change in conventions, especially those referred to as ``artistic''.
>>
>> I want to replace "\textfrak" with one of the initial fonts (as yet  
>> undecided). As far as I can tell I have the Initials package  
>> installed in all the right places.
>>
>> textfrak works with "\usepackage{oldgerm} in the preamble after   
>> documentclass.
>>
>> What is required to use initials? Nothing I have tried seems to work.
>>
>> George L Ghio
>> Renegade Writing
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Where did you place the files?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
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