OT: LaTeX question (font Lato family)

[Darlene Wallach]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this line from a LaTeX poster presentation file:
>
> \newfontfamily{\titlefont}{Lato}
>
> But I have been getting lots of fonts not found and errors.
>
>
>
> grep: Lato.log: No such file or directory
> mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Lato' failed to make Lato.tfm.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !
> ! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
> !
> ! The font "Lato" cannot be found.
> !
> ! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
> !
> ! For immediate help type H <return>.
> !...............................................
>
> l.12 \newfontfamily{\titlefont}{Lato}
>
> ...
> And so on.
>
> I have installed Lato (perhaps) using:
>
> sudo yum install texlive-lato
>
> Any suggestions as to what is going wrong, and how to get around this. (Again, I know that this is not a Fedora question, but I thought that someone may have experience with this, and an answer.)
>
> Many thanks again for any help!
>
> Best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
>
>
> --

I found this:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/54221/cant-get-lato-fonts-to-work-in-texlive-2011

stackexchange.com is a good place to post questions like this.

Does this help?

Darlene Wallach
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