[OS X TeX] Fonts in TL2012

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:35 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 27.07.2012 um 01:27 schrieb Michael Welsh:
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>> I just figured it out -- it's because I don't have italic versions of comicsans and I was using a textit{} command.
> 
> Yeah, Comic Sans comes only in regular and bold variants… But you can artificially slant fonts, and since Comic Sans is sans-serif it should look quite OK. Here are lines taken from psfonts.map that show how to slant an upright font and how to un-slant an italic font that it looks quite upright:
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> 	pplbo8r URWPalladioL-Bold " .167 SlantFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <uplb8a.pfb
> 	pplbu8r URWPalladioL-BoldItal " -.1763 SlantFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <uplbi8a.pfb
> 
> (You can also see that the PS fonts are 8a encoded while the TeX fonts are 8r encoded, so that the PS font needs to be re-encoded.)
> 
> BTW, is dvips meanwhile able to handle TrueType fonts? Some years ago when I made experiments it was not. I found a description to convert TT to PostScript Type 42, TT with a PS wrapper around, but never implemented it because I hardly could imagine an use for DVI files and TT fonts. (And it was also possible to take the TT font and convert it into a set of average and expert encoded PostScript fonts.)
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete
> 

Howdy,

The comicsans fonts are ttf to which the SlantFont option cannot be applied (according to the comicsans documentation). That documentation essentially suggests using FontForge to create italic versions in pfb from the original ttf files. See section 2.2.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)