long day, {04jun10}

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:17:37PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> guys,
> 
> esp'ly tex wizards, is there a tex version of georgia?  [[i know,
> i know, somebody created this typefae for microwit.copr,
> everybody favorite company.  company, corp, or human being.]]
> notwithstanding, i like it for printed material.  it is small,
> even a very smaall pt-sized like 10pt, and easy on the eye.
> since i was pointed at some of the better serif for for text,
> i've checked out every one.  compared them to georgia; it tops my
> best list.  

Download and install the 'winfonts' package from CTAN:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/winfonts/ 

Installation instructions are for windoze unfortunately. Unpack the zipfile in
the appropriate directory (for my TeXLive it would be in
/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/, don't know about teTeX). If necessary,
download the fonts from http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/
copy the truetype fonts to the appropriate directory
(/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/truetype for my TeXLive install).
Run mktexlsr. Now add winfonts.map to your updmap.cfg file, and run updmap.
You should then be able to use the fonts with \usepackage{winfonts}.

> i was up past 03:00 this morning messing with things tex.
> ---cannot find xetex, btw, nor xelatex.  so that is a  2nd qstn:
> do we have a ports directory where the tex stuff is located?

The TeX in ports is outdated and abandoned upstream. Install TeXLive instead.

> finally, is there any font+tex site =and= mailing list that the
> tex wizards onlist know of?

Your local TeX User Group will probably have a mailing list.

Roland
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