Installing mathpazo font pack

Erik Alapää

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Oct 26, 2002, 6:01:42 AM10/26/02

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Hello folks,

I am using LaTeX on Solaris and Linux (RedHat). I would like to use
the current PSNFSS packages (in particular, mathpazo to get palatino
and corresponding math fonts, since my university wants
palatino). Yesterday, I updated my LaTeX installation on RedHat's
site, but even the newest LaTeX packages for RedHat seem to contain
the obsolete psnfss stuff (times, palatino, mathptm, mathpple) and no
mathpazo. (a PSNFSS ver. 9 usage document refers to the packages above
as obsolete)

I downloaded the mathpazo tar ball from ctan, but then read on google
that font installation is rather complicated. What is the easiest
route to get mathpazo and all the newest PSNFSS stuff working with
LaTeX? Is it extremely complicated to install mathpazo on an existing
LaTeX installation? Is there a step-by-step HOWTO?

Regards,

/Erik Alapää

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Walter Schmidt

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Oct 26, 2002, 6:52:49 AM10/26/02

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"Erik Alapää" schrieb:

> I downloaded the mathpazo tar ball from ctan, but then read on google
> that font installation is rather complicated. What is the easiest
> route to get mathpazo and all the newest PSNFSS stuff working with
> LaTeX?

Install all of PSNFSS 9, rather than the mathpazo stuff alone.
Basically, follow the instructions in the 00readme.txt file
that comes with PSNFSS (CTAN:macros/latex/required/psnfss).
I cannot provide "fool-proof" step-by-tep instructions,
because the details depend very much on the particular TeX
system. This, you need a certain knowledge about the internals
of teTeX.

Maybe it is easier to remove the teTeX that came with RedHat
Linux and install TeXLive7 instead.

Greetings
Walter

Erik Alapää

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Oct 26, 2002, 7:39:55 AM10/26/02

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Walter Schmidt (wsc...@arcor.de) wrote:
: "Erik Alapää" schrieb:

Thanks for your input, it seems logical to install a completely new
PSNFSS. By the way, what the heck is teTeX and TeXLive7? I know what
TeX, PlainTeX, LaTeX2e, AMS-LaTeX etc. are, but have never bothered to
learn about e.g. teTeX.

Walter Schmidt

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Oct 26, 2002, 8:07:48 AM10/26/02

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"Erik Alapää" schrieb:

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> By the way, what the heck is teTeX and TeXLive7?

teTeX is a particular implementation of TeX. The TeX system
in almost all Linux distributions, including RedHat, is based
on teTeX.

TeXLive is a CD-ROM, see <http://tug.org/texlive> with a
comprehensive and up-to-date TeX system. It is based on teTeX,
too. Binaries are provided for many different Unices and for
Windows.

HTH
Walter

Scott Pakin

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Oct 28, 2002, 12:21:16 PM10/28/02

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Erik Alapää wrote:
> Thanks for your input, it seems logical to install a completely new
> PSNFSS. By the way, what the heck is teTeX and TeXLive7? I know what
> TeX, PlainTeX, LaTeX2e, AMS-LaTeX etc. are, but have never bothered to
> learn about e.g. teTeX.

teTeX and TeXLive are TeX *distributions*. That is, they're a set of
tools that typically include Plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Dvips, various
fonts and style files, installation programs, etc.

-- Scott