Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Interested in MinionPro installation guide (for WinXP)?

[Montag]

Aloha.
First a big THANK YOU to this community. I managed to install MinionPro on my machine after what felt like 1398i4e394 years, due to two or three threads on here. I've just discovered them and before that, I always failed at installting these stupid fonts. :/

So, since I'm in the mood (kind of) and am really happy (kind of) and think this guide could be transformed into a good guide (that, I actually really do) for Windows XP users:
Is anyone interested in a guide / howto about installing MinionPro on a Windows XP machine that runs with (in terms of LaTeX) MikTeX?

I've already typed up some stuff but I realized... it may be a) redundant and b) might come off as pretty cocky if I post it without request.
So if there's the need for it ... please reply.

[localghost]

Keep it with the slogan of an old commercial by a famous sports ware producer.

Just do it!

Everything related to LaTeX is of interest for this board.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Montag]

That, Sir, I would consider sublime advertising.

But yes, ok, I will finish it. Since there's no actual need for it right now, I will work on it how time suits me.

[localghost]

That, Sir, I would consider sublime advertising. [...]

Unfortunately I won't get payed for that. We are looking forward to the result of your efforts.

[Montag]

Ok, before I finish the document, I need to know what

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C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Mark\LokaleEinstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\MiKTeX\-
ó.ß\fonts\typeÕ\adobe\MinionPro

is in English.
I'm kind of getting insane, I really can't find the English adequate answer on the internet...
My guess is:

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Documents and Settings - Local Properties - Application Data

Is that correct?

[Montag]

I realized I need someone to proof-read. =)

[Montag]

Here it is:
mpro_installation_miktex_windows_machine.pdf

If you have some constructive criticism, please go ahead and just post it.

edit:
I uploaded it to zippyshare, because the file's too big for this attachment thingy in this forum here.

[Montag]

The first update:
mpro_installation_miktex_windows_machine.pdf

Thanks to magicmoose for the first corrections.

[hesitz]

I use another Adobe opentype font with MikTex, Garamond Premier Pro. I just use xetex in the MikTex distribution, which can use otf files directly and doesn't need any "install" process. Or, rather, the "install" process consists merely of copying the otf font files to the Windows Font folder.

So I have a question. Why would someone using MikTex use latex rather xetex, when both are part of MikTex? In other words, what does pdfLaTex support that XeTeX doesn't?

[meho_r]

Things that I noticed immediately after I began using XeLaTeX:

1. pdfLaTeX is much faster than XeLaTeX.
2. XeLaTeX does not support "micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX", character protrusion, font expansion... (take a look at microtype docs for more infos) which are important for some people.
3. XeLaTeX uses utf8 font encoding. If you, for some reason, have to use another encoding, it's very likely that XeLaTeX wouldn't be the right choice.