Cambria font package
Jim
where can I find it?
Thanks in advance
Bob Tennent
> Is there a Cambria font package for LaTex on a unix machine? If so,
> where can I find it?
Assuming you have the Cambria fonts (from a Windows machine or from
Ascender Corp.), convert them to ps (type 1) format if necessary
and then install them following the instructions here:
info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/fontinstallationguide.pdf
at CTAN. BTW, Cambria was designed for on-screen reading. Any reason to
choose that font for LaTeXing? I hope you don't have any math in your
document.
Bob T.
Bob Tennent
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:24:23 -0700 (PDT), Jim wrote:
>
> > Is there a Cambria font package for LaTex on a unix machine? If so,
> > where can I find it?
>
I forgot to say how: ttf2pt1 or fontforge.
Will Robertson
> BTW, Cambria was designed for on-screen reading.
Was it? I thought the "C" fonts were all designed with both screen
*and* print in mind (unlike the old Verdana/Georgia/etc. fonts).
From <http://www.ascendercorp.com/font/cambria/>:
> The Cambria™ Font Family was designed for on-screen reading and to
look good when printed at small sizes
(I was going to say I quite like it as a text font, but then remembered
I've never actually printed anything out with it before. Who uses
paper? :) )
Will
Robin Fairbairns
>(I was going to say I quite like it as a text font, but then remembered
>I've never actually printed anything out with it before. Who uses
>paper? :) )
there are those of us. it's the eyesight, you know.
(i find web pages difficult to read too, particularly the (wannabe)
commercial ones with lots of deliberate distraction.)
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Will Robertson
Yes, I know what you mean.
Working electronically almost exclusively for a couple of years now, I
can't say that I find working through problems quite as easy on a
computer than on a whiteboard, and reading papers gets harder and
harder (the Elsevier publications I read in particular seem to be
getting typographically worse every couple of years -- but that would
be almost as bad on paper as on screen). Nonetheless, if I keep
everything electronic then I'm far more likely to be able to track it
down in the future -- if I remember about it, that is. I often come
across (usually not related to whatever project I was working on)
papers I forgot about that I filed away to look at at some future date
that never happened.
And when things are too small I just make 'em bigger :)
Will
Jim
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:24:23 -0700 (PDT), Jim wrote:
>
> > where can I find it?
>
> Ascender Corp.), convert them to ps (type 1) format if necessary
> and then install them following the instructions here:
>
> info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/fontinstallationguide.pdf
>
> choose that font for LaTeXing? I hope you don't have any math in your
> document.
>
> Bob T.
Dear Bob,
My computer expert has created the Cambria fonts, placed them in the
appropriate
subdirectories, and run texhash. However, when I run LaTex I get an
error about a
missing Cambria.sty file. What have we left out? I've seen a
reference to fontinst;
is this something we've forgotten?
Thanks, Jim
Bob Tennent
> On Sep 30, 4:52�pm, Bob Tennent <B...@cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:24:23 -0700 (PDT), Jim wrote:
>>
>> �> Is there aCambriafont package for LaTex on a unix machine? �If so,
>> �> where can I find it?
>>
>> Assuming you have theCambriafonts (from a Windows machine or from
>> Ascender Corp.), convert them to ps (type 1) format if necessary
>> and then install them following the instructions here:
>>
>> info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/fontinstallationguide.pdf
>>
>> at CTAN.
>
> appropriate
> subdirectories, and run texhash. However, when I run LaTex I get an
> error about a
> missing Cambria.sty file. What have we left out? I've seen a
> reference to fontinst;
> is this something we've forgotten?
If your "expert" followed the instructions in the fontinstallationguide,
he/she would have used fontinst. A style file may or may not have been
created; if you refer to it in a document, you obviously have to create
it and put it where TeX can find it. The relevant information is in
Sections 1.6 and 1.7 of the fontinstallationguide.
If you did create a style file as suggested, it has to be put "where
TeX can find it", either in the same directory as the document, or
in a texmf tree, in .../tex/latex/misc (and then run texhash or sudo
texhash). You can verify that TeX can find it by running
$ kpsewhich Cambria.sty
If by "has created the Cambria fonts" you simply mean "has converted
from ttf format to pfb format", there's more to do. Again, I refer you
to the fontinstallationguide (only "The Basics" :+)
Bob T.