mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) (03/21/91)
Are TeX fonts available for use with Mac applications? I need to match the font on a TeX document with a document produced from a Mac application. If the Computer Modern Roman fonts are available in a form so that they can installed on a Mac, or if there is a program for doing the creation/transformation, I would appreciate hearing about it. We are on the Internet so I can ftp from other Internet sites. Thanks. Mark -- Mark Benard Department of Computer Science INTERNET & BITNET: mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu Tulane University USENET: rex!mb New Orleans, LA 70118
dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/21/91)
In article <6731@rex.cs.tulane.edu>, mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes: > Are TeX fonts available for use with Mac applications? I need to match the > font on a TeX document with a document produced from a Mac application. If > the Computer Modern Roman fonts are available in a form so that they can > installed on a Mac, or if there is a program for doing the > creation/transformation, I would appreciate hearing about it. We are on the > Internet so I can ftp from other Internet sites. The only mac-format cmr that I know of is that distributed with Textures; I don't know if they'd be willing to sell them separately but it's worth giving them a call if it's really important to you (the number is 1-800-622-8398). HOWEVER, there is one big problem: cm uses positions 32 and 13 (space and carriage return) for visible glyphs and most Mac applications assume that those spaces are empty and use a brain-dead printing algorithim which ends up printing the characters in cm at those locations. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.
sean@castle.ed.ac.uk (S Matthews) (03/23/91)
mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes: >Are TeX fonts available for use with Mac applications? I need to match the >font on a TeX document with a document produced from a Mac application. If >the Computer Modern Roman fonts are available in a form so that they can >installed on a Mac. Probably easier is to go in the other direction, and use Postscript fonts in TeX. This is possible using dvips at least. Of course you lose in that Postscript fonts are fairly primitive compared to TeX fonts, but hammering them into the TeX framework is easier than vice-versa. If you have to stick with the default TeX fonts then you have a problem; even if you can translate the fonts into Postscript, unless you do an enormous amount of work they will probably look even worse than Postscript in TeX, for various reasons. Sean
ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) (03/25/91)
Last I heard, Blue Sky were about to release new version of cmr (0.9, soon-to-be 1.0) in Adobe type 1 format. Those should be downloadable, no? Price is steep, however: list 345, educational 195... -- Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu