Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Standard Font DIN OT Regular

[Moruk]

Hi,

How can I use an external (commercial) font like DIN OT Regular (OpenType) as Standard-Font?

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\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\???}

lg

[Frits]

There are multiple ways to do this, but I prefer XeTeX when using non-standard fonts.

[Moruk]

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\usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}

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\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{DIN OT}

I get this error: not loadable (metric-tfm) file not found

how do I have to install the font?

[frabjous]

You either need to install the font, or use the font's file name. See page 6 of the fontspec manual.

[Moruk]

Ok, I installed the Font in Ubuntu.

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\setmainfont{/pathtofile/DINOT.otf}

does not work...

[frabjous]

Does it work when installed on Ubuntu?

Does the path to the file have spaces in it?

[Moruk]

Yes, I can use the font in OpenOffice.

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%%This is a very basic article template.
%%There is just one section and two subsections.
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec} % OpenType Fonts
\usepackage{xunicode} % OpenType Fonts
\usepackage{xltxtra} % ÓpenType Fonts

\setmainfont{/home/user/.fonts/DINOT.otf}

\begin{document}

\section{Title}

\subsection{Subtitle}

Plain text.

\subsection{Another subtitle}

More plain text.


\end{document}

missfont.log:

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mktextfm /home/user/.fonts/DINOT.otf/B
mktextfm /home/user/.fonts/DINOT
mktextfm /home/user/.fonts/DINOT.otf/I
mktextfm /home/user/.fonts/DINOT
mktextfm /home/user/.fonts/DINOT.otf/BI

[frabjous]

You are compiling with xelatex, right?

Anyway, the idea was to either give the full path to the font OR install it on Ubuntu and use the normal \setmainfont line, not both.

Now that it's installed on Ubuntu, what does:

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fc-list | grep -i DIN

Yield from the terminal? Are you using exactly that (before the colon) in the argument to \setmainfont?

[Moruk]

Ok, now it works with \setmainfont{DIN OT}.

Perfect, thank you

[millesogni]

Hi!
I need to use the font DIN, but I use LaTeX and a Macintosh... Can you help me?

I would like to use Xelatex, but I have the LaTex class in which I use the minion package and I don't know if it's a problem...

Thank you!