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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Rolf Turner wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:20210503151242.465007b8@rolf-Latitude-E7470">
<pre wrap="">In respect of the subject line of this email, basically my question is:
How the <expletive deleted> does one do it?
/* rant on */
I have done considerable web searching, and so far have found zero
(and possibly a negative amount of) enlightenment. Everything that I
have seen seems to start off in the middle --- or at the upper end ---
and is filled with jargon, acronyms and references to concepts that
have no meaning to me. No examples ever seem to be given. People
assert that there are clear instructions provided, but as far as I
can tell there are none. I'd like a simple recipe, with one or two
minimal examples, that I could follow and adapt.
/* rant off */</pre>
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"Physician, heal thyself" — if you could give examples of the
"jargon, acronyms and references to concepts that<br>
have no meaning to [you]", others might be better placed to explain
them.<br>
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cite="mid:20210503151242.465007b8@rolf-Latitude-E7470">
<pre wrap="">Let me give an explicit example. I'd like to make use of a cursive
script font. Looking through the LaTeX font catalogue, I found a font
that seems to be essentially what I want: BrushScriptX-Italic
Now here's some LaTeX code:
\documentclass{article}
% ???
% ???
\begin{document}
The quick brown hippopotamus jumped over the lazy elephant.
\end{document}
What can/should I put in the preamble [...] ?
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<br>
An interesting question. As one who never willing uses LaTeX, I
started by trying the obvious —<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">% !TeX Program=XeLaTeX
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; line-height:100%;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\documentclass {article}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\font \myfont = "BrushScriptX-Italic"</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\begin {document}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\myfont</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">The quick brown hippopotamus jumped over the
lazy elephant.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\end {document}</p>
</blockquote>
<br>
That did not work, because TeX Live has not provided TTF or OTF
files for BrushScriptX-Italic. So I used Voidtools "everything" to
find all instances of files named BrushScriptX-Italic, and found
BrushScriptX-Italic.pfa and BrushScriptX-Italic.afm. Thinking that
a pure PdfLaTeX solution might work, I then tried —<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">% !TeX Program=PdfLaTeX
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; line-height:100%;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\documentclass {article}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\font \myfont = BrushScriptX-Italic</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\begin {document}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\myfont</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">The quick brown hippopotamus jumped over the
lazy elephant.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;">\end {document}</p>
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<br>
but that did not work either, reporting —<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">This is XeTeX, Version
3.141592653-2.6-0.999993 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX) (preloaded
format=xelatex)
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">
restricted \write18 enabled.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">entering
extended mode</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">(./untitled-3.tex</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">LaTeX2e
<2020-10-01> patch level 4</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">L3
programming layer <2021-02-18></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">(c:/TeX/Live/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Document
Class: article 2020/04/10 v1.4m Standard LaTeX document class</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">(c:/TeX/Live/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))name
= BrushScriptX-Italic, rootname = BrushScriptX-Italic, pointsize
= </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">mktexmf:
empty or non-existent rootfile!</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">kpathsea:
Running mktexmf BrushScriptX-Italic.mf</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">The
command name is C:\TeX\Live\2021\bin\win32\mktexmf</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Cannot
find BrushScriptX-Italic.mf.</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">! Font
\myfont=BrushScriptX-Italic not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or
installed</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> font
not found.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><to
be read again> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">
\protect </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">l.5
\begin</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">
{document}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">? </p>
</blockquote>
<br>
Therefore I cannot help, but others undoubtedly will be able to do
so. I would imagine that some intermediate steps might be required
to make the Adobe Type-1 font "BrushScriptX-Italic.pfa" usable by
LaTeX,but since it is well over 20 years since I last felt the need
to use a Type-1 font with TeX, I no longer have the slightest idea
of what those steps might be.<br>
-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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