Thread: ἐγκώμιον: A (Xe)LaTeX Poetry Template
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Old 10-18-2009, 04:40 PM   #7
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However the XeLaTeX version can readily be used with any TrueType and OpenType fonts that you do have... which, if you have either Microsoft or Adobe products installed, you almost certainly have a few of at least (high quality ones, that is).
I generally try to stick with Open Source (or at least free-as-in-beer) software, as much as possible. I have a Windows partition on one of my computers, but it's extremely minimal. I use it only for Netflix watch instantly, and occasionally checking what a webpage I make looks like on Explorer. (Typically leading me to fume over their non-compliance with W3C standards.) I did steal the C-series fonts off of it (Cambria, Consolas, etc.) to install on Linux. I think the only Adobe product I have installed is ADE, which I use to check ePubs. I might have Acrobat reader installed, but I'm not even sure about that. I don't recall either of those coming with fonts. I might have an old copy of Acrobat Pro somewhere but I don't remember fonts coming with that either. Since I mainly use LaTeX for typesetting (and while I've played with XeLaTeX, I haven't made the switch), I haven't made a habit of collecting TrueType fonts.

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If you are on windows systems (or can copy over .ttf and .otf fonts from your windows system to /home/user/.fonts/) try and see if you can get the template working with:

- Palatino
- Garamond
- Adobe Garamond
- Minion (or is it Minion Pro?)
- Bembo (or is it Bembo Pro?)
I don't have any of those installed on any of my systems as true type or open type. I do have URW Palladio as TrueType, which is pretty much identical to Palatino, and of course, I have the Type 1 Palatino for the LaTeX pxfonts package. Not sure what the advantage would be to go with XeLaTeX and True Type fonts.

I actually don't think Garamond and Palatino look that much alike. I can easily tell them apart anyway, though perhaps either would look nice with your template.

I wonder what it would like like with Linux Libertine, though, which I have as all three formats: True Type and Open Type and Type 1, and is a pretty nice looking font in that sort of family.

I don't read a lot of poetry though, so I'm not sure that I'm going to get a lot of use out of this.
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