Easy lucida font use

Easy lucida font use

[David Arnold]

All,

There was an easy way shared to use the Lucida fonts without having to do
any special font or map generation via texfont. Something involving Adobe
KB or some such thing. Can someone remind me?

Re: Easy lucida font use

[Adam Lindsay]

David,

Which operating system are you on?

All I can think of as the "easy way" is the possibility listed in cont-sys:
% Some styles default to Lucida Bright. You can overload 
% Lucida by Times cum suis. Watch out, the pos collection 
% is not scaled relatively. 
%
% \definetypescriptsynonym [lbr] [pos] 

Which is to say, if you don't have the fonts, all you can do is choose a
substitute. If you do have the font *installed*, then it would be: 
\usetypescript[lbr]


And, the reason why I ask which operating system you're on is because a
lot of systems have 12 of the Lucida fonts installed because of Java. On
MacOSX, with Java 1.4.1, I have a texfont install with symbolic links to
the .ttf files. If there's a canonical linux install location for Java,
the same thing could be done there, I think.

(I'm planning on releasing some Mac OS X/ConTeXt "tricks" soon, but I
need to debug the font issues with gwTeX first.)

Cheers,
adam


David Arnold said this at Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:32:06 -0800:

>All,
>
>There was an easy way shared to use the Lucida fonts without having to do
>any special font or map generation via texfont. Something involving Adobe
>KB or some such thing. Can someone remind me?
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