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- Subject: Re: Help with LucidaMath fonts
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.105352.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:53:52 GMT
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- In article <1jrgc9INNoo7@life.ai.mit.edu>, bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
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- > In article <1jpel3INN2mn@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:
-
- > 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).
-
- If you're using dvips (which by my guess is fairly likely), you
- can do the remapping via VF files. I have some vague
- recollection that Karl Berry and someone else from England whose
- name I don't remember (terribly sorry) have done the work of
- getting the Adobe Lucida fonts working under TeX. I'm sure
- they'll post some more on the topic.
-
- Reencode the fonts... hmmph!
-
- -dh
-
- Don Hosek
- dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
- Quixote Digital Typography
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