At the moment I try to get the EB Garamond font to work on my windows machine (under MikTeX 2.9), but I failed. By searching TeX.SX I found this two questions:
The first solution is too generic because it only points out the existence of the ebgaramond
package on CTAN, while the second one consists in reinstalling the package by hand - which I tried without success.
As the README of ebgaramond
demands I enabled the font-map of EB Garamond (by adding
Map EBGaramond.map
to the updmap.cfg
, and then Refreshing FNDB and bashing
initexmf -u
updmap
to the Windows command line.) Is this alredy wrong? Maybe I am missing something completely basal in my test file:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
%\usepackage[DIV10]{typearea}
%\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{A \LaTeX\ Article}
\author{Ruben Giannotti}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
{{\large 1}\hspace{.5em}\scshape \uppercase{Introduction}\par\vspace{1em}}%faking a section title
\lipsum
\end{document}
When compiling with LaTeX a really bad looking .dvi
emerges. (So I guess the maping should be alright.) But, when doing so with pdfLaTeX not even an output file is generated. The log file says:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file EBGaramond12-Regular-osf-t1--base): Font EBGaramo nd12-Regular-osf-t1--base at 548 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
By enabling microtype
it changes a little:
! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts. \endgroup \set@typeset@protect l.17 \end {document} ... ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Edit
In the meantime I tried several things with the font mapping configuration. What I did in the first place was to modify updmap.cfg
in the root directory of MikTeX, which is not ideal. So, I restored it to its original state. Afterwords I started the configuration with initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
(which opens the corresponding config file in the roaming directory of MikTeX - at least on my machine). I finally made EB Garamond to work but - and this is a non acceptable drawback - I had to cancel out another mapping that I added before (MinionPro).
In short: With my actual knowledge and setup I can use only one of them, and what I deduce from what I did til now is that I simply use the wrong syntax to map the fonts (note the plural form) correctly. This is how my updmap.cfg
looks like:
Map EBGaramond.map Map MinionPro.map Map MyriadPro.map
By the way, I did this because the MikTeX manual says
"Insert the following line at the end of the file: Map xyz.map"
Do I have to respect some syntax rules? Is this even wrong? Or could this be a sign that my whole distro is broken (see @DG's comments on his/her answer)?
LuaLaTeX
instead ofpdfLaTeX
an option for you? The OpenType version ofEB Garamond
has lots of cool features, but they're best accessed viaLuaLaTeX
and thefontspec
package.EBGaramond
, then do as Mico says. Using the OpenType version withLuaLaTex
(orXeLaTeX
) is likely to succeed quite easily, while figuring out what went wrong installing the font forpdflatex
has wasted a lot of time already.