[OS X TeX] Minion and Minion Pro

[Richard Seguin]

Michael,

I looked at the instructions for installing the MathPi fonts. In the finder, my versions are called MathePiTwo and MathePiSix. You refer to mh2.pfb and mh6.pfb. Can I merely change the names of my files, or is it more complex than that? Maybe my versions are too old.

I've been playing with your mathalfa package, and it works nicely. boondox works nicely for scr, and matches the optical weight of Minion far better than rsfs does. So far I'm still preferring the style of euler for cal, although its weight could be very slightly heavier. The bold version is too heavy. I'm glad that I looked at this package. I didn't realize that all these font versions existed.

Richard

On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

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> On Apr 8, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:
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>> I notice that you have support files available for the Adobe Mathematical Pi fonts. I have an old set of this in postscript type 1, consisting of six font files. Are your files at all useful for this? It would be nice to be able to use the old style script (not the fraktur script)  in one of those font files.
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> The support files permit the use of the calligraphic, fraktur and blackboard bold alphabets from the old Adobe Mathematical Pi fonts, though after they re installed, I think the best way to use them is, for example, 
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> \usepackage[cal=mathpi,calscaled=.95,frak=mathpi]{mathalfa}
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> after other math packages are loaded. (You can use scr instead of cal (or both) if you want $\mathscr{A}$ to print as mathematical Pi script A.)
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> There's another package on my site called fontset.dmg which contains some macros for the TeXShop macro menu, one of which (TestFontset) shows you the relative sizes of the fonts you are using, all highly magnified and overlying a grid so you can determine scaling factors more readily.
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> Michael
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