Installing additional fonts

TeX distributions usually install a lot of fonts. A package manager allows the installation of further fonts, like mpm with MiKTeX or tlmgr with TeX Live.

TeX Live includes only freely licensed fonts. Non-free fonts may be installed using a separate program. It's called getnonfreefonts. If it's not already installed with your version of TeX Live, you can download it from http://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/.

getnonfreefonts –l

This command lists all additionally available non-free fonts. If you wish to install a font, give its name as the argument or just type the following to install all available fonts:

getnonfreefonts –a

Type the following to get a brief documentation:

getnonfreefonts

getnonfreefonts would install ...

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