I don't understand why fonts that work perfectly fine on Windows with TeXLive 2013 don't work on my Mac with MacTeX-2013, but whatever. I need to install "Linux Libertine O," but do not know how to do it. The instructions I find online all seem to be for older versions of MacTeX and OS X. I need the font to work with XeLaTeX. If there is a large font distribution/package of some sort that I can use that would be ideal so that I don't keep having to install fonts one by one.
[Tex/LaTex] How to install a font on MacTeX 2013
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You can't use tlmgr (or its front-end TeX Live Utility). There is a script called getnonfreefonts at http://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/ that you have to download with the Terminal command
curl -O http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts
and then install with
sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts
Then you can get direction on its use by
getnonfreefonts --help
For example, in order to install URW Garamond for all users you do
sudo getnonfreefonts-sys garamond
Installing fonts for one user only is not recommended.
Note that manual installation of Biblatex and Biber is not recommended except in exceptional circumstances.
Such circumstances include:
you've been bitten by a bug which is fixed in a newer version, you need the fix urgently and you will remember to undo the manual installation at the appropriate time (and you'll recognise when that is);
you have been foolish enough to update your TeX distribution right before a deadline, have no roll-back plan and the update has broken your bibliography, you plan to fix the real problem after the deadline and will remember to undo the manual installation at that time.
In all other cases, the best course is to update your document or other packages to use the new Biblatex/Biber or to wait for the fixed version to be available through your normal update routine.
Note that there is no guarantee that rolling back Biblatex/Biber will work with an updated TeX distribution, although it is likely in most cases to work in the short term.
Caveat emptor ...
If you are sure you want to do this, then proceed as follows. These instructions assume you are using TeX Live on a Unix-ish system (Mac OS X, BSD, GNU/Linux etc.).
You need to download matching versions of Biber and Biblatex from SourceForge: Biber and Biblatex.
At the command line (e.g. Terminal for OS X users), navigate to the directory you downloaded the files to.
ls *.tgz *.gz
should show you a file named biblatex-<version>.tds.tgz and another named biber-<arch>.tar.gz where <version> is the version you need of Biblatex and <arch> matches the architecture of your OS.
mv biblatex-<version>.tds.tgz $(kpsewhich -var TEXMFHOME)
pushd $(kpsewhich -var TEXMFHOME)
tar -xzf biblatex-<version>.tds.tgz
kpsewhich biblatex.sty
The last command should return a file in you personal TEXMF tree and not in the main TEXMF tree. It should be somewhere in your home directory.
popd
mkdir -p ~/bin
tar -xzf biber-<arch>.tar.gz
This should produce a biber binary, possibly in a sub-directory.
mv <sub-directory>/biber ~/bin/
To use your downloaded copy of Biber, use ~/bin/biber <filename> rather than biber <filename>, to make sure you get the correct one. (You could adjust your PATH to automate this, but it is not worth it for a very short-term temporary workaround.)
Best Answer
Do you have Linux Libertine installed as an OTF in your Mac? If so, using
fontspec+ XeLaTeX should "just work".edit: As per Joseph Wright's request for clarification: I have installed the Linux Libertine OTF package as a system-wide font (i.e. accessible to any application on my Mac)