[texhax] [XeTeX] installing fonts in latex

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/11/16 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> Dear Maria --
>
>> I am contacting you regarding an enquiry we have on installing fonts in
>> latex.
>>
>> We are working in UNIX environment and we would like to install a custom
>> font in latex. Is it possible to install a custom font? If so, could you
>> please guide us through? In order to install a custom font what should
>> be the file extension?
>
>
> I know nothing about Unix, but if there is a version of XeTeX which
> runs under XeTeX, then XeLaTeX may be your preferred solution.  XeTeX
> understands system fonts, so provided that your custom font is
> already in system format (Truetype, Opentype, whatever), then all
> that will be needed is to install the font wherever your system
> fonts live, using its canonical extension.
>
That's the easiest way. If you want to use the old way, you have to
prepare the tfm files, map file and fd file, optionally vf file and/or
enc file. There are some limitations in the tfm file (especially the
maximum number of distinct heights) and the non-TeX fonts may have too
much distinct heights. The files may need some hand tuning. I would
suggest to follow the XeLaTeX way. LuaLaTeX can use such fonts as
well, it is only useful to run mkluatexfontdb.

The system fonts may reside anywhere under /usr/share/fonts (or any
other directory known by your fonconfig)

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