![]() ![]() ![]() # Generates MnSymbol.sty latex MnSymbol.insĬp MnSymbol.sty $DEST/tex/latex/MnSymbol/MnSymbol.styĬd. # Everything gets done in a temporary directory cd ~/tmp System wide is best in recent MacTeX releases: DEST = `kpsexpand '$TEXMFLOCAL' ` # Downloader: DOWNLOAD = "curl -L -O" # Directory where minion fonts may be found: #MINIONSRC=/Applications/Adobe\ Reader.app/Contents/Resources/Resource/Font/ #MINIONSRC=~/tmp/minionsrc MINIONSRC =~/Library/Fonts # Information # 0.1: Install LCDF Typetools # If you use Homebrew (), then uncomment: # brew install lcdf-typetools # 0.2: If ~/tmp doesn't exist, create it. If you are a sensible person, of course, you will not even find yourself facing this ridiculous situation. Seeing as I have to go through this any time I set up a new Mac, and always forget the steps, this is pretty useful. Don’t run it unless you know what you’re doing, though. Here is a shell script I came across that will do that for you automatically. So I need to set up Minion Pro to work with pdflatex. But because I have a debilitating obsessiveness in this regard, I know that xelatex doesn’t let you use certain microtype features available to pdflatex. Note at this point that, if you like, you can simply use xelatex instead to use all your installed fonts with latex. If you have the font installed on your Mac somewhere, then there’s a package of stuff available to get it to work with pdflatex. ![]() It’s expensive to buy but often comes bundled with various Adobe products, notably Acrobat reader. Minon is a terrific typeface and I use it for my papers. One piece that always gives me a headache, though, is getting Minion Pro set up for use with LaTeX. Tedious! But at this point also fairly straightforward. Other useful stuff after that includes Pandoc. I’m at the point where my most of my text editing and data analysis stuff can be up and running fairly quickly: install Xcode via the App Store (or just the command-line tools if you want), then MacTeX, then R, then Emacs, then my Starter Kit for the Social Sciences, then my own LaTeX style files and bib files. And sometimes you just want to set up from scratch. Cloning from the old machine is often a good idea, but things don’t always work as they should. Setting up a new machine is usually a pain, especially if-like me-you have a bunch of additional stuff installed that isn’t living in your user directory, like a TeX installation. ![]()
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