Hi - Is it possible to use Arial fonts in plain TeX (not LaTeX) using
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Am 28.10.2013 um 04:22 schrieb Mark London: > Hi - Is it possible to use Arial fonts in plain TeX (not LaTeX) using TeXShop? Possibly… (*I* would shy away from the effort to make such an ugly font available in plain TeX.) First you need the font files. You might need to convert them into a format that TeX understands, can handle. Second you would need to create TFM files from the fonts. Third you would need to write a possible extension for TeX that would allow it use Arial font files in PostScript, TrueType, or OpenType format. Fourth you would need to change the plain TeX format file that Arial is used as text font instead of Computer Modern. Or do you want to use a different font, Arial, in TeXShop only to *display* the plain TeX source code? -- Greetings Pete Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex |
If you’re willing to use XeTeX, it’s quite simple:
(Compile with plain XeTeX engine:) \font\arial="Arial" \arial Some text in Arial \bye See the xetex documentation for more details on font selection. Alternatively there are the urw-arial fonts which can be installed by doing: sudo getnonfreefonts-sys in the terminal. Alan On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Peter Dyballa <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Am 28.10.2013 um 04:22 schrieb Mark London: > >> Hi - Is it possible to use Arial fonts in plain TeX (not LaTeX) using TeXShop? > > Possibly… (*I* would shy away from the effort to make such an ugly font available in plain TeX.) > > First you need the font files. You might need to convert them into a format that TeX understands, can handle. > > Second you would need to create TFM files from the fonts. > > Third you would need to write a possible extension for TeX that would allow it use Arial font files in PostScript, TrueType, or OpenType format. > > Fourth you would need to change the plain TeX format file that Arial is used as text font instead of Computer Modern. > > > Or do you want to use a different font, Arial, in TeXShop only to *display* the plain TeX source code? > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. > > > ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- > TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq > List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ > List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ > TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ > List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex -- Alan Munn [hidden email] ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex |
Am 28.10.2013 um 15:06 schrieb Alan Munn: > Alternatively there are the urw-arial fonts which can be installed by doing: Possibly for use in LaTeX… -- Greetings Pete You can never know too little of what is not worth knowing at all. – Anon. ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex |
On Oct 28, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Peter Dyballa <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Am 28.10.2013 um 15:06 schrieb Alan Munn: > >> Alternatively there are the urw-arial fonts which can be installed by doing: > > Possibly for use in LaTeX… What does this have to do with LaTeX? Assuming you have installed the urw-arial fonts, you can use the following with Plain TeX (not LaTeX, not XeTeX). \font\arial=ua1r8r at 10pt \arial Some text \bye Alan -- Alan Munn [hidden email] ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex |
How do you install the urv-arial fonts for use with plain TeX?
Thanks Juan On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Alan Munn wrote: \font\arial=ua1r8r at 10pt ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex |
Sorry. Ignore my question.
It seems I have ignored the rest of the discussion. Juan On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:19 PM, juan tolosa wrote:
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On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:19 PM, juan tolosa <[hidden email]> wrote:
> How do you install the urv-arial fonts for use with plain TeX? Open an Terminal window and get the getnonfreefonts script from CTAN using curl: curl -O http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts then run the install script as admin: sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts Now you have a script installed that can install the fonts for you. The available fonts are: arial-urw Arial (URW) classico Classico (URW) dayroman DayRoman (Apostrophiclabs) eurofont Euro symbols (Adobe) garamond GaramondNo8 (URW) garamondx GaramondNo8 Expert (Michael Sharpe) lettergothic LetterGothic (URW) luximono LuxiMono (Bigelow & Holmes) vntex-nonfree VnTeX nonfree (Han The Thanh) webomints Webomints (Galapagos Design Group) If you want to install all the fonts you can do: sudo getnonfreefonts-sys —all Or alternatively, if you just want to install arial-urw then you can do: sudo getnonfreefonts-sys arial-urw The fonts will be installed in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts Alan > Thanks > Juan > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Alan Munn wrote: > >> \font\arial=ua1r8r at 10pt >> \arial Some text >> \bye > > > ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- > TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq > List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ > List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ > TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ > List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex -- Alan Munn [hidden email] ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex |
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Thank you, Alan,
Juan On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:20 PM, juan tolosa wrote:
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Am 28.10.2013 um 22:06 schrieb Alan Munn: > What does this have to do with LaTeX? Assuming you have installed the urw-arial fonts, you can use the following with Plain TeX (not LaTeX, not XeTeX). > > \font\arial=ua1r8r at 10pt > \arial Some text > \bye You would also need to redefine "automatic" font selections for footnotes, headers, … (Therefore I recommended to build an own format.) -- Greetings Pete Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so. ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex |
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