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- From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Help with LucidaMath fonts
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 13:14:49 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- In-reply-to: dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov's message of 22 Jan 1993 18:33:07 GMT
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- In article <1jpel3INN2mn@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:
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- I have the Adobe Lucida Math fonts and their .pl files but have not been
- able to get all of the math characters to print properly (I am using
- pltotf and dvips V5.495). Can anyone offer any pointers?
-
- You need to note that Adobe doesn't believe in the `control character'
- positions, so all of the characters you'd expect to be in in the 0 -- 31
- range appear instead in the 161 -- 195 range. They also like a space in
- position 32. One way to fix this is to reencode the font. That is, change
- the assignments in the Encoding vector to correspond to those in Computer
- Modern math fonts.
-
- How to do this is a function of what platform you are on - something you
- don't mention. On Unix, with PFA files you can edit the file directly,
- since it is plain ASCII. You need to change the AFM file also if you are on
- NeXT using Display PostScript.
-
- On the PC you have to convert the compact binary PFB file to PFA form, edit,
- and convert back to PFB (using PFBtoPFA and PFAtoPFB say - or just use
- REENCODE directly). If you are using the font in MS Windows, you'll have to
- make up a new PFM metric file (using AFMtoPFM say).
-
- For the Mac version, use EdMetrics to tell TeXtures the font uses `Lucida
- math' encoding. Or convert to PC format and proceed as above (using
- MACtoPFA and PFBtoMAC). Of course, you'll also have to modify the `screen
- font' then (using AFMtoSCR say). Similarly, ...
-
- Life is MUCH easier if you get instead the Lucida New Math fonts from Y&Y.
- They are all set up to have the expected encoding and come with appropriate
- metric files. Aside from that, they have TWICE as many glyphs, hence
- cover not only CM, but LaTeX math symbol, and AMS math fonts as well...
-
- Disclaimer: respondent has connections with Y&Y, obviously...
-
- Berthold K.P. Horn
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
-