Latex vs. non-latex fonts

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 12, 2024, at 3:25 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM Christopher Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com <mailto:chris.menzel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com <mailto:ndbecker2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference.  I'm using lualatex to 
>>> produce pdf.
>>> 
>>> In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If I don't 
>>> check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do check 'use 
>>> non-TeX fonts', the fonts look much thinner and to my eye not very 
>>> pleasing.  Again I have not changed any font settings from defaults.
>> 
>> And that’s why they don’t look good. You need to choose one from the drop-down list. The problem with using non-TeX fonts is that there might not be a corresponding math font. One that does have a math font and that looks quite nice is Cambria. If you are using MacOS or Windows you should have it on your machine if you’ve installed Office 365 or a standalone of any of the usual Microsoft applications. To get the corresponding math font once you’ve selected Cambria from the drop-down, add the following to the preamble:
>> 
>> \usepackage{unicode-math}
>> \setmathfont{Cambria Math}
>> 
>> If you’re using Linux, there are instructions to be found on the interwebs for installing the Microsoft fonts Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas. They are extracted from the old PowerPoint Viewer, which Microsoft released for free and hence (so I recall gathering from discussions in various forums) can be extracted and used legally.
>> 
> Thanks!  I am on linux (fedora).  I found instructions to install msfonts.  Now I have Cambria, but it seems not Cambria math?
>  
> Package fontspec Error: The font "CambriaMath" cannot be found.

Note there’s a space in the \setmathfont{Cambria Math} declaration, in case that’s relevant.

> Any hints?
> In /usr/share/fonts/mscorefonts I have
>   -r--r--r--. 1 root root 331916 Sep 26  2006 cambriab.ttf
>   -r--r--r--. 1 root root 336812 Aug  9  2006 cambriai.ttf
>   -r--r--r--. 1 root root 326024 Aug  9  2006 cambriaz.ttf
> (along with others not starting with 'cambrai’)

Hm, here’s everything I’ve got on my Kali Linux installation:

╭─cmenzel at kali-linux-2022-2 ~  
╰─$ locate cambria                                                        
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambria.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriab.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriai.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriamath.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista/cambriaz.ttf
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/cambria-math.lfg
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/cambria.lfg
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-cambria.mkiv

In case you didn’t use the instructions I followed, give →THESE <https://kodejava.org/how-do-i-install-calibri-font-in-ubuntu/>← a try.

-chris



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