<div dir="ltr">I have to agree, with some in here, that on matters of font-installation TeX gets a huge black-eye.<div><br></div><div>Yes, it is possible to read all the web-pages and material included and install it, to know all that it takes to produce a page in plain-TeX, but nonetheless it is still a mess and out of sync with the rest of TeX installation and use. TeXLive did a huge improvement in everybody's life mid-90's as far a TeX installation, but font-installation and use continues on a pre-90's level.</div><div><br></div><div>Even with XeTeX and LuaTeX, that made a lot of this mute, it is, in some cases, extremely hard to know even the "name" they need in order to load a font via fontspec.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are looking for specialty fonts, like hieroglyphs,music, ... you are in for a ride and a lot of reading before you can produce a single line of text.</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>The situation is so messy that even for important fonts like MathTime Pro, people go on to create their own installation scripts:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://github.com/jamespfennell/mathtime-installer">https://github.com/jamespfennell/mathtime-installer</a></div><div><br></div><div>a script that does what it says (install the font) but in the process damages your TeXLive installation.</div><div><br></div><div>"getnonfreefonts" changed that for the short list of its 11 current fonts. It would be nice to see it extended to "getanyfont", I have given it a thought a few times I had to go through one of these font installations.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 10:03 AM Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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PT> An interesting question. As one who never willing uses LaTeX, I started
PT> by trying the obvious —
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<pre>Am I too old-fashioned that for me the obvious is to read the
documentation first? The documentation recommends pbsi.sty, which
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The problem is, Boris, that unless one recognises (or knows) that
all entries in the LaTeX font catalogue are hyperlinks, one has no
way of knowing that such documentation exists.<br>
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<i>** Phil.</i><br>
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