Set Up Minion Fonts with TinyTeX

This repository contains scripts to set up Minion Pro and MnSymbol for pdflatex as installed from TinyTeX. It barely modifies the guides by Kieran Healy and by Carlo Hämäläinen's, which weren't working out-of-the-box with the TinyTeX setup.

What's different?

The original routine relied on commands and environmental variables that (at least for me) were not installed/defined with TinyTeX. So I found a workaround. You can view the critical changes here. I also updated URLs to Hämäläinen's test files.

The reference folder contains Healy's version, for posterity.

How to

The script setup-minion.sh walks through the setup, but the overview is like so:

1. You need Minion Pro, which you can get by installing Adobe Acrobat Reader.
2. Install LCDF TypeTools here or use (brew install lcdf-typetools).
3. (Optional) Copy Minion Pro from the Acrobat support directory to your system fonts
4. Follow the script