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I am using the Latex Font catalog:

http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/

I can set some of the fonts, however I cannot set a lot that I want. For example, I can set "Carolmin" effectively in a document. (See below example).

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{carolmin}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

\cminfamily

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

\end{document}

However, I cannot get "Accanthis" to work, which is the font I really want to use. This is frustrating especially since the "example" file provided on the font catalog website does not compile after a bit of effort.

Here is my (non-working) accanthis.tex example. I have an accanthis.sty file in the same directory. I downloaded the accanthis.sty file by typing the filename into Google, then deleting the html tags on the document that came up. 

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{accanthis}

\begin{document}

{\accanthis Hello there!}

\end{document}

I hope you can provide some feedback here!

Pattisahusiwa
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TexUser
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  • That "accanthis" document should work assuming your TeX installation is up to date. On my system (TeX Live 2013), your document works just fine -- with or without the \accanthis -- but it is using accanthis.sty and T1AccanthisADFStdNoThree.fd, both from 2013/11/04. (You can check this by adding \listfiles to your .tex file, recompiling, and then looking at the end of the .log.) In other words, you need both the .sty file and various font-files related to accanthis installed. (Exactly which font files depends on whether you use pdfTeX, LuaTeX, or XeTeX to compile...) – jon May 05 '14 at 03:27
  • ok, so I am using pdfLaTex to compile. I have typed \listfiles and at the end of the log, all I see is the fatal error. – TexUser May 05 '14 at 03:36
  • Indeed. That sounds like you don't actually have the fonts installed. MiKTeX includes a package installer, I believe, so I would try to use that rather than doing the installation of all files by hand... – jon May 05 '14 at 03:49

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I think there is no problem with your latex code. The accanthis is displayed in my compiled page (pdf page).

You can check with this source,

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{accanthis}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

    \sfdefault

    \ttdefault

    \rmdefault

    {\accanthis \lipsum[1] 1234567890}

    {\rm \lipsum[1] 1234567890}

    {\tt \lipsum[1] 1234567890}

    {\sf \lipsum[1] 1234567890}

\end{document}

Edited

I've modified the code to compare with accanthis style in http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/accanthis/

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{accanthis}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{setspace}

\begin{document}

    \doublespacing
    \Large

    \sfdefault

    \ttdefault

    \rmdefault

    {\rm The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}

    {\accanthis The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}    

    {\itshape The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}

    {\bfseries The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}

    {\bfseries\itshape The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}

    {\tt The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}

    {\sf The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}

\end{document}

This is the result running code

compare with from www.tug.dk

Pattisahusiwa
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  • I have installed accanthis using miktex, but now I have a "fatal error": The AccanthisADFStdNo3-Regular-lf-t1--base source file could not be found – TexUser May 05 '14 at 03:26
  • @TeXUser -- that error indicates that you don't have the necessary font files installed. For fonts to work, you need the fonts and a way to use them in a *TeX document. accanthis.sty just provides a convenient wrapper so you can use the font (if installed) with minimal hassle. – jon May 05 '14 at 03:30
  • @jon please direct me to the font files... I installed the accanthis with miktex and I downloaded an accanthis.sty file. – TexUser May 05 '14 at 03:31
  • @TeXUser -- I always look to CTAN first, which, in this case, seems to include everything you need. Unfortunately, I have no idea how things are done on MiKTeX ... but I note that the package is said to be included in MiKTeX, which I would think means everything would already be installed..? – jon May 05 '14 at 03:35
  • @TexUser, if you use TeXstudio, the apps will prompt to download the missing packages from ctan site when you type package name, in this case \usepackage{accanthis}. – Pattisahusiwa May 05 '14 at 03:36
  • maybe this link will help, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2063/how-can-i-manually-install-a-package-on-miktex-windows, and for the package http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/accanthis/ – Pattisahusiwa May 05 '14 at 03:41
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TWhat happened is most likely that you do have the fonts installed in the TeXMF directory. You can check that looking for accanthis directorie in the MiKTeX 2.9 directory. It happens from time to time that MiKTeX package manager forgets to update the type 1 fonts data base.

So run updmap --verbose from the command line. You can check the Accanthis font are mentioned in psfonts.map, that you'll find in C:\Users\Your_name\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9\dvips\config.

Bernard
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