fontsmathdesign
I really want to use urw-garamond with the mathdesign package, but for some reason pdflatex is throwing errors anytime I try and use it.
I've installed the mathdesign package with the TeX Live Utility and I'm using pdflatex with BasicTeX.
Any ideas on what's going wrong?
Thanks!
It is quite simple: the font the glyph corresponding to \textasteriskcentered should be taken from lacks the character; this is witnessed by the line
Missing character: There is no * in font mdugmr8c!
You need to supply it in some other way, for example by lowering the standard asterisk:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{roboto} % or another sans serif font, e.g. the cabin package
\usepackage{blindtext}
% remove the definition of \textasteriskcentered for TS1 encoding
\UndeclareTextCommand{\textasteriskcentered}{TS1}
% reinstate a default encoding
\DeclareTextSymbolDefault{\textasteriskcentered}{OT1}
% suitably define the command
\DeclareTextCommand{\textasteriskcentered}{OT1}{\raisebox{-.7ex}[1ex][0pt]{*}}
\begin{document}
Centred asterisk \textasteriskcentered, which is different from this one: *.
\end{document}
Best Answer
Do you know if you actually have the URW Garamond font files installed? Those fonts do not use a completely free/open source license, and so are often not distributed with TeXlive or installable through its package manager (even if the mathdesign.sty file is).
On linux you can install them using the getnonfreefonts script -- I suspect that might work for BasicTeX too (on a mac?), but I don't have first hand experience of that.