[XeTeX] "Finding" Lucida Bright fonts in XeTeX

nachman nachman at oakland.edu
Tue Feb 1 13:29:15 CET 2005


>
>
> On 1/31/05 5:08 AM, "nachman" <nachman at oakland.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have the Lucida Bright fonts from the old "Texture" days.  Using 
>> info
>> from Gary Gray I converted them to .pfb files, renamed and stored them
>> in the appropriate files such as
>> ~/Library/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy/lumath, etc. TeXShop with the pdf
>> typesetter or the ps typesetter has no trouble finding these fonts 
>> with
>> the following preamble:
>>
>> \documentclass[reqno]{article}
>> \usepackage[LY1]{fontenc}
>> \usepackage[LY1]{lucidabr}
>> \usepackage{bm}
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>> \usepackage{amsmath,amsthm}
>> \usepackage{latexsym}
>> \usepackage{pdfsync}
>> \usepackage{color}
>> \usepackage{amsthm}
>>
>> However, on the same file, with this preamble
>>
>> \documentclass[reqno]{article}
>> \usepackage[LY1]{fontenc} % specify text font encoding
>> \usepackage[LY1]{lucidabr} % switch text and math fonts
>> \usepackage{bm}           % switch text and math fonts
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>> \usepackage{amsmath,amsthm}
>> \usepackage{latexsym}
>> \usepackage{color}
>> \usepackage{amsthm}
>> \usepackage{utf8accents}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>>
>> XeTeX generates the following error messages:
>>
>> *** font hlcrima (LucidaNewMath-AltItalic: file 'lbmo') not found
>> *** font hlcry (LucidaNewMath-Symbol: file 'lbms') not found
>> *** font hlcrv (LucidaNewMath-Extension: file 'lbme') not found  )
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Jack Nachman
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I use the Lucida Math Fonts (lucbmath package) with Hoeffler Text and 
> it
> look fairly nice.
>
> Since you're using XeTeX the .pfb fonts aren't being used. XeTeX is 
> actually
> trying to use the original Lucida Bright fonts that are in your Classic
> Fonts Folder, the ones you used with Textures, since those are the 
> ones that
> OS X ``knows about.'' Most likely the problem is that the Lucida New 
> Math
> fonts aren't ``installed'' by default. To ``install'' them try double
> clicking on the screen font document for Lucida New Math. Font Book 
> should
> open windows for each font and tell it to install the fonts.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)

Thanks, Herb.  That worked.

Jack Nachman



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