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From: Lemuel Coalridge on 4 Jan 2010 21:37
Is this the proper group in which to ask about Mac-specific usage with LaTeX
features that one once knew about on another system? Hearing no denials yet,
I proceed:

How would I get a good Garamond family installed in my TeX setup? It's gwtex,
based, it says, on texlive.

I really don't need to get an Adobe font and adapt it from scratch at a low
level; just to use something already made, that works. Like what I have had
available for the last dozen years elsewhere, which would be Adobe Garamond
using whatzisname's implementation with the "pad" names. But I'm finding
pad.txt pretty frustrating when it suggests, for instance, loading pad.zip
from ctan. Not there, or hidden too well for me.

I have spent some days looking into things, like the readily accessible
documents and CTAN searches and nice keywords like "agaramon", not to mention
downloading the stuff for the URW Garamond and trying to follow that out, and
they all run into "consult your system's documentation" which never seems to
be there or to have the info or "use this nice file" which turns out not to
be findable on ctan or google.

I must be doing something wrong. Any tangible information, involving web
address that work, would be enormously appreciated.


--
The Man from Porlock

From: isw on 5 Jan 2010 01:31
In article <0001HW.C767E5D50010441FB01AD9AF(a)news.sonic.net>,
Lemuel Coalridge <spamdrop(a)192.168.0.1> wrote:

> Is this the proper group in which to ask about Mac-specific usage with LaTeX
> features that one once knew about on another system? Hearing no denials yet,
> I proceed:
>
> How would I get a good Garamond family installed in my TeX setup? It's gwtex,
> based, it says, on texlive.
>
> I really don't need to get an Adobe font and adapt it from scratch at a low
> level; just to use something already made, that works. Like what I have had
> available for the last dozen years elsewhere, which would be Adobe Garamond
> using whatzisname's implementation with the "pad" names. But I'm finding
> pad.txt pretty frustrating when it suggests, for instance, loading pad.zip
> from ctan. Not there, or hidden too well for me.
>
> I have spent some days looking into things, like the readily accessible
> documents and CTAN searches and nice keywords like "agaramon", not to mention
> downloading the stuff for the URW Garamond and trying to follow that out, and
> they all run into "consult your system's documentation" which never seems to
> be there or to have the info or "use this nice file" which turns out not to
> be findable on ctan or google.
>
> I must be doing something wrong. Any tangible information, involving web
> address that work, would be enormously appreciated.

It's been a long time, but ISTR that there are ways to get postscript
fonts to play well with LaTeX. Take a look in "The LaTeX Companion" for
instance.

Isaac
From: Wolfgang Meiners on 5 Jan 2010 04:43
Lemuel Coalridge schrieb:
> Is this the proper group in which to ask about Mac-specific usage with LaTeX
> features that one once knew about on another system? Hearing no denials yet,
> I proceed:

I think, comp.text.tex is a goog group to ask questions about tex and
anything related to it. In Germany, there is de.comp.text.tex too and i
suppose, there are other localized groups.

I am not sure, but i think, gwtex is a little bit outdated. You might
try to install MacTex-2009 which can be downloaded at

www.tug.org/mactex/2009/downloading.html

At http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009 you might get additional information
on this system.

Wolfgang
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