INSTALLING MATH FONTS

To install a math font one should add it to the system fonts or install
it in the TeX Live directory structure (or both).


1. INSTALLING SYSTEM FONTS

a. WINDOWS
MS Windows 7 (or newer): Right click on the font file, choose the install
option. 

b. APPLE (MAC OS X)
The font can be installed by double-clicking on the font file and following the
on screen prompts in the Font Book application, or by manually copying (or
dragging) the font file to any of the standard Fonts folders in Mac OS:
~/Library/Fonts/ (user fonts), /Library/Fonts/ (local fonts) or
/System/Library/Fonts/ (system fonts).

c. LINUX (most of current distributions)
Just copy font file to a directory read by font-config. In most cases the
directory /usr/local/share/fonts will be adequate (you can also copy the font
file to ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts ). If the font doesn't appear in the
applications font list you can run the fc-cache program in order to force a
cache rebuild.


2. INSTALLING FONTS IN TEX LIVE

To install the font in the TeX Live system you have to copy it to the
appropriate directory: (TEXMF root)/texmf-local/fonts/opentype/public/ (you may
have to create this directory). When you want to install them for only one user,
you can use the ~/texmf/fonts/opentype directory (this directory also might also
have to be created). After copying the font file, you have to run the mktexlsr
command to refresh the kpathsea caches.

Most of the typesetting engines can use fonts installed either in the OS or in
TeX Live. Microsoft Office (Word) uses, of course, only system fonts. XeLaTeX
can use both of them. LuaLaTeX and ConTeXt uses TeX Live fonts by default, but
if the OSFONTDIR environment variable is set, the system fonts also can be
found.

For typesetting math using an OpenType font with (Lua|Xe)LaTeX, an up to date
version of the unicode-math package (and related LaTeX3 packages) is crucial.


3. CHECKING THE INSTALLATION

In order to verify whether the font installation was successful, you may wish to
run the TeX examples or open the relevant MS Word example and compare the
results (in case of the Word file, just a previewer is sufficient) with the
respective PDF files.

Note that, unlike for TeX, an OTF font is to be referred rather by its
internalname(s) than by its file name.