Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Using non-standard System Fonts

[shamous]

Dear community,

This is my first post, so a hello to everyone! I am currently writing my diploma with the help of LaTeX and Bibdesk and thanks to templates I found on the internet and days spend in different help threads I am quite happy with the document I build. One thing however keeps my unhappy: the font.

The selection of standard fonts is quite limited. I experimented with different packages related to XeLaTex but in the editor I am using (Latexian) it did not work. Apparently this is due to the missing pdflatex support of XeLaTex.

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%\usepackage{fontspec} % Provide features for AAT and OpenType fonts
%\usepackage{xunicode} % Unicode support for LaTeX character names (accents, European chars, etc)
%\usepackage{xlxtra} % Extra customizations for XeLaTeX
%\setmainfont{Helvetica Neue Light} % Define the default font family. Requires XeLaTeX.

In another editor I could make Helvetica Neue work as a font. The problem then was that different parameters weren't displayed correctly, so I stayed with Latexian where at least everything else works fine.

Can anyone think of a solution how I can make Helvetica Neue work?

This is the header of my document:

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\documentclass[
   oneside,        	
   ngerman
   ]{scrbook}
\usepackage{a4}	

\usepackage{hyperref} 
\usepackage{apacite} 	
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{graphics}	

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}		
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}		
\usepackage{babel}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{phv} 	

\usepackage[lmargin=3.5cm,rmargin=3cm,tmargin=2.5cm,bmargin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}

Huge thanks in advance!
Shamous