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Installing a handwriting fonts for LaTeX in Ubuntu

i am a LaTeX user and i am using it on Linux Ubuntu. In my document i want to use handwriting font described here. So i tried to include it by using : \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{la} ...
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Latex on Linux: Path problem after new install of TeX Live

This may well be a duplicate of something that's already been covered here -- in fact it seems close to the problem described at "How does LaTeX find package files?" -- so I hope this is not too ...
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LaTeX IDE with git

I currently use Texmaker when working with LaTeX. I often use Git as well with LaTeX. I was wondering if there is an IDE similar to Texmaker which supports Git. Thanks. P.S. I use Ubuntu.
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\setbeamerfont for customizing content font in LaTeX beamer

I have a problem in which I am not sure how to modify the content (normal text) of beamer font. I only know how to modify the frametitle In which \setbeamerfont{structure}{family=\fontUbuntu} ...
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Which texmf directory to use for non-texlive deb-package

I'd like to provide a collection of packages/classes/fonts in a custom .deb package, i.e. that is not part of texlive. Which directory should I choose for installing? texlive tells me to use ...
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Why Ubuntu pdflatex in terminal and texmaker pdflatex load different libertine fonts?

The texlive 2012 and the libertine font version (currently 5.3) has been already updated by: Tlmgr update --all However, I found texmaker pdflatex invoke libertine-legacy, because when using ...
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media9 + ubuntu 13.04 install?

How do I install media9 in my ubuntu 13.04? I'm trying to create a beamer presentation that contains a video using LyX.