Re: access to system fonts under MacOSX

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

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:20:33 +0100, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:

> On 12/21/2014 02:31 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hi Jörg,
>
> \tt is a switch, so the right way to deploy it is:
>
>    {\tt this text should be typewritten text}

yes, that's right.

>
> I have just discovered that Courier doesn’t work on my system either. I
> cannot find it.
>
> Could you give the output from the following command?
>
>     $ mtxrun --script font --list --name --pattern=courier*

sure:

courier                    courier                    pcrr8a.afm
courierbold                courierbold                pcrb8a.afm
courierboldoblique         courierboldoblique         pcrbo8a.afm
couriermedium              courier                    pcrr8a.afm
couriernew                 couriernewpsmt              
/Library/Fonts/Courier New.ttf
couriernewbold             couriernewpsboldmt          
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold.ttf
couriernewbolditalic       couriernewpsbolditalicmt    
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold Italic.ttf
couriernewitalic           couriernewpsitalicmt        
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Italic.ttf
couriernewnormal           couriernewpsitalicmt        
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Italic.ttf
couriernewpsbolditalicmt   couriernewpsbolditalicmt    
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold Italic.ttf
couriernewpsboldmt         couriernewpsboldmt          
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold.ttf
couriernewpsitalicmt       couriernewpsitalicmt        
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Italic.ttf
couriernewpsmt             couriernewpsmt              
/Library/Fonts/Courier New.ttf
couriernewregular          couriernewpsmt              
/Library/Fonts/Courier New.ttf
courieroblique             courieroblique             pcrro8a.afm

as I wrote in the last mail, only the `courier new' fonts are represented  
by actual font-files it seems (don't know
what the *afm files are). so if only those
(and their abbreviations) were reported I would not have any problem. but  
as it stands, `courier' is reported
as well -- but does not map to any actual font-file.

>
>> 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?
>
>     \definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [texgyreadventor]
>
> seems to be the right way to invoke the font.
>
>> 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?>
>
> I think using full names is a good way to do it. But TeX Gyre Adventor
> comes with ConTeXt. You don’t have it installed on your system.

yes, that I know. they are part of the texlive distribution I use.

thanks for your help,

joerg
>
>
> Pablo


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