Latex vs. non-latex fonts

[Neal Becker]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 5:58 PM Christopher Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker <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
>

Thanks, getting close.  Now compiles without error, but one thing strange.
The Abstract should be bold, but in Cambria it does not seem to be bold.
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