[XeTeX] missing fonts on xetex in newbie installation on Mavericks mac

[Tim]

Thanks Stratos, I used your suggestion and it’s now all working.

tim


On 14 August 2014 at 11:03:43 am, Stratos Paschos (paschos.s at gmail.com) wrote:
> Considering that the fonts (Latin Modern Roman) have been installed,
> you have to make them (and
> generally the fonts coming with TeX) known by the system. To do that,
> follow the suggestion by Herbert Schulz in the following link:
>  
> http://macosx-tex.576846.n2.nabble.com/Accessing-TeX-Live-fonts-from-XeTeX-td5383821.html  
>  
> (substitute 2010 by 2014 in the path)
>  
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Tim wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a newbie to latex etc. I want it to write docs with mixed arabic and english. So I need  
> unicode.
> >
> > I downloaded the BasicTex package from :https://tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html.  
> >
> > It’s supposed to include xetex, which I gather the is the thing I need for Arabic text.  
> >
> . . .
>  
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tim
>  
> Stratos
>