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The Czech TUG homepage has instructions and files to install the Lido STF fonts here. I don't know much about how fonts work in TeX, and the files have a modification date of 2001, so I'd like to ask:

  1. Are these instructions up-to-date and correct? If not, please provide corrections.
  2. Do I need to install the OFS package? This is unclear for me from the instructions.
  3. How do I invoke the font in my documents?

(I know I can just use XeTeX, but it's sometimes fun to do things like this. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9.)


Here is a summary in case the link breaks.

  1. Unpack the .tgz archive.
  2. Insert the following line into texmf/dvips/config/config.ps:

    p +slido.map

  3. Insert the following line into texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg:

    map +slido.map

  4. In texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf, delete fontmaps from the line setting MT-FEATURES.

  5. Run texhash.
marczellm
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Correct installation instructions for MiKTeX

  1. Unpack the .tgz archive into your texmf tree.
  2. In the command line run initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
  3. A text file appears; enter Map slido.map (as the last line probably, the file was empty in my case, except a comment.) Save and close the file.
  4. Run texhash.
  5. Run initexmf --mkmaps.

(You may have to run all command line stuff as administrator, depending on whether you saved the files to a global texmf tree ("common root directory") or a local (user) one. All MiKTeX command line utils have the --admin option.)

In a LaTeX document you can now enable the font globally with

\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{sld}

or locally with

\fontfamily{sld}\selectfont

The OFS package is not needed for basic usage of the font, but the homepage recommends installing it. It is needed if you want to \usepackage{slido} or \input slido because the provided .sty and .tex files use OFS macros.

Here's a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{sld}

\begin{document}
\blinddocument
éáűőúöüóí
\textbf{öüóőú \textit{éáűí}}
\end{document}

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marczellm
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  • In my tree there is no texmf file, actually I dont have it at all. Is is possible tu use font Lido in pdfLaTeX? – struct Nov 21 '17 at 17:17
  • @JanFilip texmf is not a directory name. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1137/ – marczellm Nov 21 '17 at 22:19