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LaTeX support for Adobe's Pro opentype fonts: Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Cronos Pro and possibly more
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LaTeX support for Adobe's Pro opentype fonts: Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Cronos Pro and possibly more

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README 

        
FontPro source distribution

===========================



FontPro provides scripts that automatically generate all necessary

files to use Adobe Minion Pro, Adobe Myriad Pro and Adobe Cronos Pro

with (pdf)latex.  In contrast to other solutions, the supplied LaTeX

packages provide extensive math support in the case of Minion and

Myriad.  The swash letters of CronosPro can be used as `mathcal`

symbols with MyriadPro's math (option `crswash`).



Requirements

------------



The scripts need the [LCDF Typetools](http://www.lcdf.org/type/) to

run.  Version 2.85 or later is required; certain recent font versions

need version 2.99 or later.  Furthermore, standard Unix tools such as

`bash`, `sed` and `ed` are required and the following LaTeX packages,

which are currently included in a complete TeXLive or MikTeX

installation, are necessary:



* fontinst v1.925 or better

* fontaxes package

* MnSymbol for MinionPro, MdSymbol for MyriadPro

* fltpoint package

* tabfigures package (optional)

* fontware package (usually, but not always, comes with your Tex

  distribution)



Supported font styles

---------------------



For the basic set-up (`smallfamily` LaTeX package option), the regular

and bold face font are required together with their respective italic

version.  This set-up can be extended with the semibold face and its

italic (`medfamily` option), and even further with the medium face and

its italic (`fullfamily` option).



Furthermore, the optical sizes Caption, Text, Subhead and Display are

supported independently from the set-up above (`opticals` option).

Here, every font file has to be available in every optical size.



For Myriad Pro, also the light and the black weight can be used (see

documentation).



Extended or condensed font styles are not supported.



Building

--------



The following describes the build process. Here, `$` at the beginning

of the line indicates the shell command prompt. Under Windows,

[Cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) is required; either install the LCDF

type tools in Cygwin from source or install the

`texlive-font-fontutils` package.



1. Put the sources in a folder.

2. Create an `otf` directory in that folder and copy your OpenType

   font files into the `otf` directory:



        $ mkdir otf

        $ cp /some/path/*.otf otf



   MinionPro and MyriadPro font files normally follow the naming

   scheme assumed in the scripts. Make sure that the CronosPro files

   are of the form



        $FONT-$WEIGHT$SHAPE$OPTICAL.otf



   resulting in for example



        CronosPro-BoldCapt.otf

        CronosPro-BoldDisp.otf

        CronosPro-BoldItCapt.otf

        CronosPro-BoldItDisp.otf

        CronosPro-BoldIt.otf

        CronosPro-BoldItSubh.otf

        CronosPro-Bold.otf

        CronosPro-BoldSubh.otf

        CronosPro-Capt.otf

        CronosPro-Disp.otf

        CronosPro-ItCapt.otf

        CronosPro-ItDisp.otf

        CronosPro-It.otf

        CronosPro-ItSubh.otf

        CronosPro-Regular.otf

        CronosPro-SemiboldCapt.otf

        CronosPro-SemiboldDisp.otf

        CronosPro-SemiboldItCapt.otf

        CronosPro-SemiboldItDisp.otf

        CronosPro-SemiboldIt.otf

        CronosPro-SemiboldItSubh.otf

        CronosPro-Semibold.otf

        CronosPro-SemiboldSubh.otf

        CronosPro-Subh.otf 



3. Run the main script `makeall`:



        $ ./scripts/makeall $FONT [options]



   Currently, `$FONT` can be MinionPro, MyriadPro or CronosPro.



   `makeall` has some options, which normally you do not need to use.



        --verbose            show warning messages from otftotfm

        --quiet              omit these messages (default)

        --pack=  explicitly name the glyph list



   The glyph list of the last option is used to reduce the number of

   generated files and the size of the map file. This speeds up the

   compilation slightly but does not affect the output. The default

   behaviour without the `--pack` option is to use the glyph list that

   fits to your font version; if this glyph list is not available in

   the scripts folder, it can be generated using

   `generate-glyph-list.sh` _after_ a successful build. The `--pack`

   option can only be used if all you font files are of the same

   version.



   Furthermore, you can specify which metrics to create:



        --smallcaps          create small caps metrics (default)

        --nosmallcaps        turn --smallcaps off

        --swash              create swash metrics (default)

        --noswash            turn --swash off

        --greek              create greek metrics (default)

        --nogreek            turn --greek off

        --cyrillic           create cyrillic metrics (default)

        --nocyrillic         turn --cyrillic off

        --vietnamese         create vietnamese metrics (default)

        --novietnamese       turn --vietnamese off

        --expanded           create expanded metrics for pdftex

        --noexpanded         turn --expanded off (default)

        --kern               add some missing kerning pairs (default)

        --nokern             use the original Adobe kerning

        --ligatures          provide standard ligatures (default)

        --noligatures        provide no ligatures

        --wide-spacing       increase the sidebearings of quote glyphs

        --narrow-spacing     turn --wide-spacing off (default)



   The `--expanded` option allows to use the font expansion feature of

   microtype even with pdftex in dvi mode but increases the run-time

   of `makeall` and the number of produced files considerably.



Installing

----------



Under Linux-like environments, use the following commands to install

the font:



1. Run the `install` script. The default folder is `TEXMFLOCAL`,

   which can be queried by `kpsewhich -expand-var='$TEXMFLOCAL'`.



        $ ./scripts/install 



   root permissions are usually required in `TEXMFLOCAL`.

   Alternatively, you can specify the directory where the files should

   be put, for example in `TEXMFHOME`. Depending on your system, this

   could look like

   

        $ ./scripts/install $HOME/texmf



   (If you use a TeX distribution older than 2005 which does not

   follow TDS v1.1, uncomment the "old directory folders" in the

   install script!)



2. Add `$FONT.map` to the default font map files by



        $ updmap-sys --enable Map=$FONT.map



   for a system-wide installation. Use `updmap` or, on a recent

   TeXLive distribution, `updmap-user` instead of `updmap-sys` for a

   user-based installation.



Under Windows with MikTeX, do the following: 



1. Run in the Cygwin Bash



        $ ./scripts/install /cygdrive/c/path/to/Miktex



   where `c/path/to/Miktex` is the path to the Miktex installation

   tree of choice.



2. In the Windows prompt, issue



        initexmf -u

        initexmf --admin --edit-config-file updmap



   Add the following in the editor:



        Map $FONT.map



   and save. Afterwards, run



        initexmf --mkmaps



Cleaning up of the building folder

----------------------------------



If you want to install another font, it is recommended to do a



    $ ./scripts/clean



or to start from a fresh building folder.



Usage

-----



Use the FONT with



    \usepackage{FONT}



By default, the MinionPro package modifies the default serif and the

main math fonts; the MyriadPro and CronosPro change only the sans

serif font. In the latter case, if you want to use the respective font

as your main document's font, you probably have to set



    \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}



All valid options of the font packages are included in the

documentation, which is provided in the `doc` folder and which can

also be generated _after_ installing with



    latex $FONT.dtx



The `dtx` file resides in the `tex` folder.



If you get errors about insufficient memory you might need to increase

the values of `font_mem_size` and `font_max` in your TeX

configuration. For most distributions, these can be changed in the

file `texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf`. For MiKTeX the file is called

`miktex.ini`.



Maintainer and acknowledgement

------------------------------



The scripts and LaTeX packages are maintained by Sebastian Schubert

.



They have been forked from the amazing [MinionPro scripts and

package](http://developer.berlios.de/projects/minionpro) written by

Achim Blumensath, Andreas Bühmann and Michael Zedler.



The part of this README concerning Cygwin is based on [this

entry](http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/87568/11605).



All files are public domain.