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- From: rlp@sunset.lanl.gov (Dick Phillips)
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky CM fonts
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.135202.11125@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Keywords: NeXT, PostScript
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Reply-To: rlp@lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
- References: <1992Dec31.210935.23876@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 13:52:02 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Dec31.210935.23876@newshost.lanl.gov> rlp@sunset.lanl.gov (Dick
- Phillips) writes:
- > Folks:
- >
- > This may seem like an esoteric problem, but it's very real when you
- > MUST solve it. I'm running TeX on a NeXT, which is a PostScript machine.
- > For a book I'm doing, I need to use PostScript versions of the CM fonts;
- > bitmapped versions are unacceptable. Fortunately, Blue Sky Research
- > sells Type 1 versions of the CM fonts, 75 in all. I've bought them and
- > installed them. Everything seemed to go smoothly until I tried printing
- > the quadratic equation. That is, I used the simple Plain TeX expression:
- >
- > $$-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}\over 2a$$
- >
- > Curiously, all elements appeared to be correct, except the minus and
- > plusminus signs were missing. I've tried several other equations with
- > integral signs, matrix brackets, greek characters, etc., and I get
- > mixed results. For example, theta is missing, while alpha and phi are
- > correct. Also, the multiply "x" and left arrow don't appear. Any
- > thoughts on what might be amiss? Seems like an encoding problem, but
- > I wouldn't know where to look. Since this problem is not likely to be
- > of widespread interest, please reply directly to me at rlp@lanl.gov.
- > Thanks,
- >
- > Dick Phillips
-
- Thanks to all who replied to my plea for help. Barry Smith of Blue Sky
- Research called within an hour of my posting and talked me through a
- potential solution. The evidence seemed to indicate that many characters
- were missing, both from the font encoding vectors and the *.afm files,
- in the first 32 positions. Not included in my posting was the fact that
- I bought the Macintosh version of the CM fonts and used Altsys'
- Metamorphosis Pro to convert them for use on the NeXT. While I have had
- no trouble with that program in the past, it apparently can not deal with
- TeX encodings properly. I have just reinstalled the CM fonts, starting
- from MS DOS versions (thanks again to Barry Smith) and everything works
- perfectly. Thanks again,
-
- Dick Phillips
-