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noranazmy
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Installing OpenType fonts in TeXLive

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Hello,

I hope this is the right place for this. I run TeXLive on Linux (namely Ubuntu 10.4), and I would like to use some of Adobe's OpenType fonts in my LaTeX documents. I've looked around online but all the guides are very complicated, and I know little about fonts. Could someone please help me install these fonts into TeXLive?

Thanks,

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localghost
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Installing OpenType fonts in TeXLive

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I think XeLaTeX is the better way to go. It uses fonts of the operating system. So install the desired fonts on your system and take a look at the manuals of XeLaTeX related packages like xltxtra, xunicode, fontspec and mathspec.


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noranazmy
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Installing OpenType fonts in TeXLive

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localghost wrote:I think XeLaTeX is the better way to go. It uses fonts of the operating system. So install the desired fonts on your system and take a look at the manuals of XeLaTeX related packages like xltxtra, xunicode, fontspec and mathspec.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten
Thanks for the warm welcome, and for recommending XeLaTeX. I installed XeTeX for TeXLive, my life is a little better now but I still have some problems which I posted here.
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Re: Installing OpenType fonts in TeXLive

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I don't know anything about LyX. So, I can't help.
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