[XeTeX] LaTeX font in Pages or Word

[Gilles Lemagnen]

So this means FontBook does not copy fonts when you drag fonts onto it
? It just add them from their location... and if you delete your
fonts, you lose them in Font Book too.

Right? Nice to know.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:
> Le 1 juil. 08 à 23:35, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>
>> Open the Font Book app, create a new library (File > New Library…)
>> then add the fonts (File > Add Fonts…) from the folder /Library/TeX/
>> Root/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm.
>>
>> Afterwards all GUI applications should be able to see and use the
>> fonts (Latin Modern, an OpenType version -- to simplify a lot -- of
>> the EC fonts, a superset of Computer Modern). Closing and restarting
>> session may be necessary, I'm not sure.
>
> Something I forgot: the advantage of this procedure is that you don't
> need to have two copies of the Latin Modern fonts, one (in /usr/local/
> texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/) visible to TeX and the other
> (in /Library/Fonts) visible to GUI applications. By using Font Book,
> you make the fonts in the texmf trees directly visible to GUI
> applications.
>
> I tried using symlinks instead (creating a symlink to /usr/local/
> texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm inside /Library/
> Fonts), but that didn't work.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
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