Installing additional fonts is optional and only needed in special circumstances.
Instructions given in http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/w-a-schmidt/pmy.txt work fine. You need to get http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/w-a-schmidt/pmy.zip
The only problem is where to get the actual .pfb (and .afm) files. Presumably you would have to buy them from Adobe. I found MyriadPro from the net and did
cd /apps/teTeX/2.0.2/share/texmf/fonts/type1/adobe/myriad/ tar xvzf myriad-pro-pmy.pfb.tgz
The tar ball should expand to following files pmyr8a.pfb, pmyri8a.pfb, pmyb8a.pfb, pmybi8a.pfb, pmyrd8a.pfb, pmyr8ac.pfb, pmyri8ac.pfb, pmys8ac.pfb, pmysi8ac.pfb, pmyb8ac.pfb, and pmybi8ac.pfb.
Unfortunately MyriadPro was not supplied with .afm files so
I just wholly omitted them and things seemed to work anyway.
cd /apps/teTeX/2.0.2/share/texmf unzip /t/pmy.zip ../../bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texhash updmap --enable Map pmy.map ../../bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texhash
After this just add to TeX preamble
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{pmy}
Voila, it works. See [LaTeXCompanion], p.339 for further ideas.
A way to autodetect this?
< <moretexpreamble:
\IfFileExists{t1pmy.fd}{
\renewcommand*{\sfdefault}{pmy}
}{
\renewcommand*{\sfdefault}{phv}
}
\AtBeginDocument{\sffamily}
> >
For further font investigations see lcdf-typetools-2.38 at http://www.lcdf.org/type/