This code seems to work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{times}
\begin{document}
This is a test.
\end{document} %End of document.
But, I have had no luck with any fonts other than Times and Computer Modern. I ran the code here (http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/garamond/) to attempt Garamond, and I received the following error:
pdflatex> LaTeX font warning: Font shape `T1/pgm/m/n' undefined
This spirals, and I finally get the LaTeX font warning that "some fonts were not available, defaults substituted."
Even if I run the deceptively simple:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{garamond}
\begin{document}
This is a test.
\end{document}
It doesn't work and I still get the same pdflatex error message. I've also tried running this in LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX, and it doesn't work.
Further, this seems to happen with many, many font distributions. I can use LuaLaTeX and an ODF or TT font; this seems to work, but I don't like the mixture of regular math and the ODF/TT. I can't even use Euler for math!
I am running a Windows 8 machine with TeXnicCenter. This originally started in LyX, where I tried changing the fonts through the menu, and I received very similar error messages. When I do an internet search, there seems to be a lot of Windows 8 machines that have the same problem. Or is it something that I am doing incorrectly?
I'm a bit of a novice, but I'm willing to try to fix the problem. I want a different font :/
Thanks!
XeLaTeX
you need to add few lines to your preamble for avoid errors and can use the right fonts you want and have installed on your machine. Also I don't understand what is exactly what you want to do with fonts.\usepackage{garamondx}
.\usepackage{ebgaramond}
.