Re: access to system fonts under MacOSX

["j. van den hoff" <veedeehjay@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:26:29 +0100, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:

> Hi Jörg,
> I don’t have a Mac, but this works in ConTeXt:
> \definefontfamily [mainface] [serif] [TeX Gyre Pagella]
> \definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [Helvetica]
> \definefontfamily [mainface] [mono]  [Courier]
> \definefontfamily [mainface] [math]  [TeX Gyre Pagella Math]
> \setupbodyfont[mainface]

I've now looked a bit closer: this works (on my Mac) _except_ for the  
teletype
font: `\tt{some text}' ends up being typeset in the serif font. `Courier'  
is
there, for sure (meaning: it is listed by `mtxrun --script font...' but it  
does not work.
on closer inspection, the actually found fontfiles are `courier new.ttf'  
and specifying
[couriernew] _does_ work.

so it seems you are right regarding using the "full" names, e.g.

\definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [adventor]

does not work while

\definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [TeX Gyre Adventor]

does.

any ideas, why all this is happening? or: _how_ exactly can fonts be  
specified? how is the mapping
 from symbolic names to actual font files performed. it seems, sometimes  
symbolic (short) names work,
sometimes they don't. so, is there some prescription, what is the right  
(TM) way to do it?


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