[OS X TeX] Font in TeXShop

[Alain Schremmer]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 22.02.2006 um 05:27 schrieb Alain Schremmer:
>
>> I i-installed TeXShop a year or so ago. I have now some 300 pages 
>> written. But what is the font that they are written with? I don't 
>> really care other than being able to match it with a Mac font that I 
>> could use in the Intaglio-pdf graphics. Times New Roman isn't really 
>> a bad match and I was just wondering if there might be a better one. 
>
> The fonts used on these pages come from definitions inside TeX, or 
> LaTeX. You can find out which are used by looking into the LOG files. 
> The (La)TeX sources can give pointers when you check which packages 
> are loaded. If you already have or can convert them to PDF you have 
> Adobe's Acrobat or Reader products to look-up the fonts used.

 From what I could understand of the Log, the following seems most relevant:

    LaTeX Font Info: Redeclaring font encoding OML on input line 567.
    LaTeX Font Info: Redeclaring font encoding OMS on input line 568.

On 22 Feb 2006, at 4:40 am, Bruno Voisin wrote:

    With the psnfss package /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/latex/
    psnfss/psnfss2e.pdf, you are able to use the Times fonts (slightly
    different from Times New Roman, but that won't really matter for
    most people). Try putting in your list of packages:

    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{textcomp}
    \usepackage{mathptmx}
    \usepackage[scale=.92]{helvet}
    \usepackage{courier}

On 22 Feb 2006, at 2:54 am, Jonathan Kew wrote:

    This should change the typeface of your TeX-generated text to match
    what you're using in your Intaglio graphics.

Not knowing what I am doing, I certainly don't want to do that.

    If you want to do the opposite--keep the body text as it is, and
    change the typeface in the Intaglio graphics to match it better--you
    could try using Latin Modern in Intaglio. The LM fonts aren't
    provided with OS X, but I believe i-Installer will provide them if
    you ask it nicely... others here can give more precise instructions,
    I'm sure.

Again, I am too ignorant to ask nicely so I will just try changing Times 
New Roman in the Intaglio files to Times and stay with the best match of 
the two.

Well, thanks to everybody and, once again, I have been reminded that "le 
mieux est l'ennemi du bien"—if /not/ in the accepted sense of the aphorism.

Very grateful regards to all.
--schremmer
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