
converting the font to PostScript Type 1 format,īefore proceeding it may also be noted that the commercial Textures, produced by Blue Sky T EX Systems, and only available in Classic at the time of this writing, provides direct access to all the fonts installed in the OS, freeing the user from most of the following. The rest of this document considers another route, which involves four steps: At the time of this writing, there are also indications that, starting with version 10.3 (aka Panther) of OS X, the default shell will be bash instead of tcsh. It relies on two additional pieces of software, the bash shell and the FreeType font rendering engine, for both of which Gerben Wierda provides i-packages. ttf, then you can use the script ttf2tex, which takes care of everything. If the font is a platform-independent TrueType file, with extension. The installation procedure depends, of course, on the format of the font to install. dvips manual at /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/programs/dvips.pdf.
fontinst manual at /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/fontinst/base/fontinst.dvi.Directory Structure for T E X at /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/help/tds.dvi.
Font Names for T E X at /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/fonts/fontname/fontname.dvi.
INSTALLING NEW FONTS ON MAC SOX HOW TO
It also assumes that you have located and know how to display the following documentation files: In the following, for simplicity, I will speak of “gw T E X”. This tutorial assumes that you have installed Gerben Wierda’s distribution of te T E X and T E X Live for OS X, through i-Installer, and a front end to this distribution (like T E XShop, i T E XMac, O z T E X, CMac T E X or T E X Tools).