How to install the Luxi Mono font in TexShop

I've just spent way too much time trying to get this font installed. I wanted to install it as it was recommended by the Listings package (PDF) for LaTeX as the font to use if you wanted your code listings (a) in a monospace font (who wouldn't?) and (b) able to be in bold type (for highlighted keywords, etc.).

I found the LuxiMono package on CTAN, then tried to figure out how to install it for ages, then finally came across this post from the Mac-Tex mailing list describing the process for another font package.

The secret is putting everything in ~/Library/texmf/. I think it's just quickest to dump a tree listing of what I have there:

.
|-- doc
|   `-- fonts
|       `-- luxi
|           |-- LICENSE
|           `-- luximono.txt
|-- dvips
|   |-- config
|   |   `-- ul9.map
|   `-- luxi
|       `-- ul9.map
|-- fonts
|   |-- afm
|   |   `-- public
|   |       `-- luxi
|   |           |-- ul9b8a.afm
|   |           |-- ul9bo8a.afm
|   |           |-- ul9r8a.afm
|   |           `-- ul9ro8a.afm
|   |-- map
|   |   `-- vtex
|   |       `-- ul9.ali
|   |-- tfm
|   |   `-- public
|   |       `-- luxi
|   |           |-- ul9b8a.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9b8c.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9b8r.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9b8t.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9bo8a.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9bo8c.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9bo8r.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9bo8t.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9r8a.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9r8c.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9r8r.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9r8t.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9ro8a.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9ro8c.tfm
|   |           |-- ul9ro8r.tfm
|   |           `-- ul9ro8t.tfm
|   |-- type1
|   |   `-- public
|   |       `-- luxi
|   |           |-- ul9b8a.pfb
|   |           |-- ul9bo8a.pfb
|   |           |-- ul9r8a.pfb
|   |           `-- ul9ro8a.pfb
|   `-- vf
|       `-- public
|           `-- luxi
|               |-- ul9b8c.vf
|               |-- ul9b8t.vf
|               |-- ul9bo8c.vf
|               |-- ul9bo8t.vf
|               |-- ul9r8c.vf
|               |-- ul9r8t.vf
|               |-- ul9ro8c.vf
|               `-- ul9ro8t.vf
`-- tex
    |-- context
    |   `-- pdfsync4context.tex
    |-- latex
    |   |-- luxi
    |   |   |-- luximono.sty
    |   |   |-- t1ul9.fd
    |   |   `-- ts1ul9.fd
    |   `-- pdfsync.sty
    `-- plain
        `-- pdfsync.tex

26 directories, 43 files

Then the magic command is sudo updmap --enable MixedMap ul9.map. You may need to be in the dvips/luxi dir to run that. Also, just in case you're getting confused, the .tex, .vf, .ali and .tfm files were either already there or auto-generated.

To take advantage of the font, I just added

\usepackage[scaled]{luximono}

to my LaTeX document, and it automatically became the default \tt font for it.

I hope this alleviates headaches for some others out there!