I apologize for this being an extremely naive question, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around what the sources I've consulted so far are saying.
I'm writing a Beamer presentation in TeXShop, on a Mac running Lion. I've download some Optima fonts from CTAN at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/classico/ and would like to install them on my distribution, and then to use them in my document.
Can anyone help a fellow TeXer out with a simple, step-by-step guide of what to do here, from installing, to the appropriate command line to paste into my TeX document?
One confusing point is that I cannot seem to locate my texmf folder. If I go to ~/Library/texlive/2011, all I see there is something called temxf-var.
Many thanks ahead of time to anyone kind enough to take this on.
Best Answer
It is generally better to install fonts in your system-wide
texmf-local
folder rather than your personaltexmf
folder. In fact, TeXLive now has a simple script installed for installing the non-free fonts such as classico.The really simple way
Open a Terminal window and type the following: (you should be logged in to an account with administrator privileges.)
And you are done!
To use the font, add
to your document preamble to make Classico the sans serif default.
What the script is doing (the slightly more complicated way)
Effectively the script is simply downloading the font from CTAN and executing 3 commands. Here's a step by step version of what it does, which you can also do if you prefer. I also leave it in for fonts that are not installed by the script. I will begin from the assumption that you have downloaded the
uop.zip
file and it is in~/Downloads
.Open a Terminal window and type the following:
You will be asked for your password.
This should return the a whole bunch of lines reporting the unzipped files:
Next enter
this will rebuild the file list database to reflect the added files. This command should return:
Next enter
This command will enable the font map files and produce a lot of output too:
Now you are done. Use as above.