[OS X TeX] times font

[juan tolosa]

Great. I was hoping that somebody in the Mac-and-TeX community had encountered this problem before.
It is not my immediate goal to become an expert in fonts, naming schemes, etc. etc.

Juan

On Oct 2, 2012, at 4:57 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 02.10.2012 um 06:36 schrieb juan tolosa:
> 
>> Still, the "trade mark" ® does not show
>> when I try
>> {\timesfont ® is a trade mark}
> 
> Maybe you should try to understand some basics of fonts, their naming schemes, their encodings, how LaTeX can distinguish between hundreds of characters when a TeX font encoding (TFM) has only 128 slots and a virtual TeX font encoding (VF) has 256 slots.
> 
> In LaTeX you would put in the preamble
> 
>  \usepackage{times}		% {\rm,\sf,\tt}default = {ptm,phv,pcr}
>  \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> %  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>  \usepackage[full]{textcomp}
>  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}	% other font encodings: TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, LCY, OT2, LY1, T5
>  %%%%\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{pag}
>  %%%%\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ppl}
>  %%%%\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}
> 
> to be able to make use of a font depending extra set of characters from the textcomp package. Depending on the file's input encoding you could then use ® directly or \textregistered.
> 
> --
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> 
>  Pete
> 
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