Stephen Buonopane wrote: >> In my teTeX installation, I have duplicate versions of all these fonts >> as .tfm and .pfb files; that's causing the conflict, right? >> >> How can we get LyX to recognize the .ttf fonts in the LyX.app bundle? >> >> Bennett >> > > I have had no such problems with my Lyx/Mac. On both OS X 10.2 and 10.3. > I get the same output in the console and I also have both .tfm and .pfb > fonts installed. > Must be something else?
tfm: TeX font metric file. TeX reads .tfm files to find out how big letters are. (TeX doesn't actually know anything about fonts.) Some other program, like a driver, reads PK, Type1, TrueType etc to actually render the letters. You might find this useful for general info: http://tinyurl.com/4hl6g pfb: Typically, a UNIX Type1 font is distributed as an afm (adobe font metric) file, and an outline file, which is usually a pfb (printer font binary) or pfa (printer font ascii) file. The outline file contains all the glyphs, while the metric file contains the metrics. On Win32 afm files are often replaced by pfm files. A general description of all the different font files on your machine and how to go about configuring 'em: http://tinyurl.com/43vrv I don't suppose that either link will nail down your problem, but I've found both to be generally useful. -- Angus
