Set Garamond fonts in latex

2011-08-21 01:00:45

I generally use Garamond as my default fonts in Latex writing. Partially because it is old-styled and still used in many French booklets.

If you don’t have Garamond fonts installed with your tex distribution, then following might be helpful for you.

  1. download from CTAN, choose garamond zip file.

  2. find your texmf tree in your file system, usually it is 

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    /usr/share/textmf

  3. install all .pfb files into 

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    <texmf>/fonts/type1/urw/garamond

    and all .afm files to 
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    <texmf>/fonts/afm/urw/garamond

  4. update fonts database by 

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    sudo fc-cache -vf

  5. delete the file 

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    <texmf>/dvips/config/ugm.map

    and configure by 
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    sudo texhash then updmap --enable Map ugm.map

If everything is going correctly you will soon be able to use Garamond fonts. Good luck!