I have the MacTeX-2012 Distribution installed on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. Opening TeX Live Update, I see that the erdc package is installed. However, as stated in erdc.pdf
, mathgifg is required to provide access to Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Gothic fonts, but mathgifg isn't available via TeX Live Update.
Questions
- How can I install mathgifg on OS X, since it isn't available on TeX Live Update?
- Is it possible to install the Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Goth fonts on OS X, or are they available only on Windows?
- How can I install the fonts for use with MacTeX-2012?
Best Answer
The font families
Georgia
(in "Regular" and "Bold" weights, with upright and italic shapes) andFranklin Gothic
(in "Book" and "Medium" weights, also with upright and italic shapes), but notITC Franklin Gothic
, should be pre-installed on your MacOS X system.ITC Franklin Gothic
is a clone ofFranklin Gothic
; I doubt you'll be able to detect visually meaningful differences between them.Since
Georgia
andFranklin Gothic Book
are system fonts, you can access them directly -- as is shown in the MWE below -- if you're willing to runLuaLaTeX
rather thanpdfLaTeX
.If you are willing to run
LuaLaTeX
(and I can't imagine why you wouldn't) on your.tex
files, the only remaining function of themathgifg
package is to provide a math font family that meshes with theGeorgia
text font. (Aside: To set up themathgifg
package on your system, you'd download the.ins
and.dtx
files from, e.g., http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mathgifg, to a scratch folder, and run LaTEX onmathgifg.ins
to generate the filemathgifg.sty
. Copy the style file either to the folder where your main.tex
file is located or to a folder that's searched by MacTeX2012. After that, runsudo texhash
to update TeX's filename database.)In the MWE below, I suggest using
XITS Math
(a Times Roman clone) as the math font, asGeorgia
is at least somewhat based onTimes Roman
.XITS Math
certainly isn't perfect, but using it is a lot better than, say, Computer Modern Math. Perhaps another person can suggest a math font that harmonizes betterGeorgia
. BecauseGeorgia
is a font with both a large x-height and a large caps-height relative to its nominal or point size, I suggest you use theScale=MatchUppercase
option when setting the sans font, and the optionScale=MatchLowercase
for the math font. (For more on what these options do, I recommend you study the user guide of thefontspec
manual.)