Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 14:08:34 -0700
From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: long day, {04jun10}
Message-ID: <20100605210831.GA87130@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100605094715.GA37824@slackbox.erewhon.net>
References: <20100605061734.GA7082@thought.org> <20100605094715.GA37824@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 11:47:15AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:17:37PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > guys, > > > > esp'ly tex wizards, is there a tex version of georgia? [[i know, > > i know, somebody created this typefae for microwit.copr, > > everybody favorite company. company, corp, or human being.]] > > notwithstanding, i like it for printed material. it is small, > > even a very smaall pt-sized like 10pt, and easy on the eye. > > since i was pointed at some of the better serif for for text, > > i've checked out every one. compared them to georgia; it tops my > > best list. > > Download and install the 'winfonts' package from CTAN: > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/winfonts/ > > Installation instructions are for windoze unfortunately. Unpack the zipfile in > the appropriate directory (for my TeXLive it would be in > /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/, don't know about teTeX). If necessary, > download the fonts from http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/ > copy the truetype fonts to the appropriate directory > (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/truetype for my TeXLive install). > Run mktexlsr. Now add winfonts.map to your updmap.cfg file, and run updmap. > You should then be able to use the fonts with \usepackage{winfonts}. super! --it isn't critical that i use georigia, just something as size-efficient. i just found TUG FOr North America, FWIW.... :_) > > > i was up past 03:00 this morning messing with things tex. > > ---cannot find xetex, btw, nor xelatex. so that is a 2nd qstn: > > do we have a ports directory where the tex stuff is located? > > The TeX in ports is outdated and abandoned upstream. Install TeXLive instead. yup, there is a tkxmlive port in ports/textproc. more to the point, i found a slew of texlive stuff hosts on google. > > > finally, is there any font+tex site =and= mailing list that the > > tex wizards onlist know of? > > Your local TeX User Group will probably have a mailing list. > well, i got thrown off my your 'local' prefix until i realized that the latin[12] world might be local to most of those on this list. but there are dozens of other families. thanks muchly. gary > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel
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