[texhax] Difficulties installing new fonts for use in LaTeX

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Sat Feb 1 17:14:04 CET 2014


2014-01-31 Evan <evanoftoronto at gmail.com>:
> I'm running 2013 MacTex on a Mac OS 10.9.1 8GB ram 2.93 GHz MacBook Pro.
>
> I tried installing and following all instructions for the package at
> this link: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/minionpro/to use
> Minion Pro on LaTeX. I already have Minion Pro .otf files and LCDF
> Typetools on my computer. The same errors appear when I try to use
> fonts from this tug recommended font list
> http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/ (namely, Merriweather). Both
> TeXShop and TeXWorks come across the same issues.

Since you have a recent TeX installation and want to use OpenType
fonts, I suggest you use them with XeTeX or LuaTeX and the fontspec
package.

See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/148233/5763

Best
   Martin


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