Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Libertine as Font with LaTeX on openSUSE 11.4

[carverknut]

Hi there,
I was using this very nice font before - now I would like to use it again on my machine. I found on CTAN a libertine.sty file - but how do I get my latex to use it? My old .tex files which were typeset with Libertine now do not work any more, unfortunately.
Any help or directions are very welcome.
Knut

[localghost]

Did you install TeX Live from the »Publishing« repository [1}? Or did you install it from DVD and evade the RPM package manager?

[1] Index of /repositories/Publishing/openSUSE_11.4


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[carverknut]

Hi,
thanks for the welcome!

I installed it via DVD and had to manually install kile. Thanks for the directions, still I am puzzled what to do.

Thanks for further help,
Knut

[localghost]

It's suggestive to do a full installation. I'm pretty sure that the package is part of the DVD content. An update via internet by the TeX Live Manager (tlmgr) is not possible any more because TeX Live 2010 has been frozen. TeX Live 2011 pretesting is on the way.

[shadgrind]

localghost is correct that the libertine package is included on the TeX Live 2010 DVD.

To get the Libertine fonts to show up in documents, I had to use the T1 font encoding:

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Otherwise the OT1 font encoding got used by default, which resulted in this message:

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LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/fxl/m/n' undefined
(Font)      using `OT1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 25.

And when looking at the PDF's properties in Acrobat Reader, it would show that the default Computer Modern font was still being used. Forcing the T1 encoding solved that font substitution problem.

[carverknut]

Hi all,
many thanks for the hints - there was a .rpm in the full install section, so I managed to activate the Libertine font.
Still, I am struggling to get g-brief active.

Many thanks,
Knut