Friday, August 28, 2015

Fonts on Mac

Use Font Book to install, view and manage fonts.
Located in the applications folder.
Open Font Book, or double-click a font file.

Q: How to make a MS Word document look like it has been typeset in LaTeX?


Mac Instructions only Based on James Lingard's MS Word template page.
Lingard's template file (LaTeX.dot) can be used to produce documents that look a lot like they've been typeset in TeX/LaTeX but you'll need to install the Computer Modern TrueType versions of fonts used by LaTeX to make them available in MS Word.

Installing the fonts:
  1. Download the minimum set: cmr10.ttf, cmbx12.ttf and cmbx10.ttf and other suggested tt files (e.g. bakoma true type fonts) Other examples: https://guides.lib.jmu.edu/freemedia/font and  https://www.1001fonts.com/ and more... 
  2. Once downloaded on the Mac, go to the download location and open the files by double-clicking. This starts Font Book which opens the tt (TrueType) font file. Font Book is included with OS/X. Basic instructions on using Font Book from Apple.
  3. Font Book provides a small display of the font and gives an option to "Install Font" via the button at bottom right of the window. 
  4. Click Install Font; Font Book then checks/validates the font. You might need to review warnings, all trivial as far as I make it, after which the font is now available for Mac applications to use. 
  5. The next time you open MS Word it will spend 30s or so updating its font listing. 
User installed fonts view in Font Book
Installing the Template:
Mac instructions only: You add Lindgard's LaTeX.dot file to the appropriate templates folder:
MS Word template location. From the Finder menu; Finder>Go>Go to Folder...
~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates
Then create a new MS Word document based on the template via:
  1. From the MS Word menu bar: File > New from Template... 
  2. The MS Word "Document Gallery" window opens... 
  3. Select "My Templates" in the navigation pane... 
  4. Select the template named "LaTeX" 
Word Document Gallery: New from Template. Chose LaTeX

Your new document is now using Lindgard's stylesheet in MS Word, which should also be using the bakoma TrueType fonts. The screen and output should now mimic a LaTeX typeset document very closely.

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