[OS X TeX] Is it possible to use Arial fonts in plain TeX using TeXShop?

[Alan Munn]

If you’re willing to use XeTeX, it’s quite simple:

(Compile with plain XeTeX engine:)

\font\arial="Arial"
\arial Some text in Arial
\bye

See the xetex documentation for more details on font selection.

Alternatively there are the urw-arial fonts which can be installed by doing:

sudo getnonfreefonts-sys

in the terminal.

Alan


On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.de> wrote:

> 
> Am 28.10.2013 um 04:22 schrieb Mark London:
> 
>> Hi - Is it possible to use Arial fonts in plain TeX (not LaTeX) using TeXShop?
> 
> Possibly… (*I* would shy away from the effort to make such an ugly font available in plain TeX.)
> 
> First you need the font files. You might need to convert them into a format that TeX understands, can handle.
> 
> Second you would need to create TFM files from the fonts.
> 
> Third you would need to write a possible extension for TeX that would allow it use Arial font files in PostScript, TrueType, or OpenType format.
> 
> Fourth you would need to change the plain TeX format file that Arial is used as text font instead of Computer Modern.
> 
> 
> Or do you want to use a different font, Arial, in TeXShop only to *display* the plain TeX source code?
> 
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>  Pete
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