[OS X TeX] MathTimes-Textures to Mac OS X?

[Dave McCollum]

I should have stated, "lower case filenames" such as: mtex.pfb 
instead of MTEX.pfb. Sorry.


>Themis,
>
>Please take a look at my (very) recent/previous post. I added a few 
>needed details to the instructions.
>
>Also, make sure your pfb font files are all lower case.
>
>Let us know if this helps.
>
>
>
>-Dave
>
>>Thanks for the detailed instructions. I followed the steps but I 
>>could not get it to work right:
>>
>>1 Using texshop on a test file, some symbols look ok (eg integral, 
>>sum), others look wrong (left-right parentheses appear as ,/), and 
>>others don't show up at all (greek letters). If I use Acrobat to 
>>read the generated pdf, I get the message "font RMTMI contains a 
>>bad box" and the sum and integral are replaced with strange 
>>characters.
>>
>>2 The log says
>>	Warning: pdftex (file mtex.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file 
>>for reading
>>	Warning: pdftex (file rmtmi.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font 
>>file for reading
>>	Warning: pdftex (file mtsy.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file 
>>for reading
>>These pfb files are in fact located in 
>>usr/local/tetex/share/texfm.local/fonts/type1/yandy/mathtime and 
>>I've run texhash a couple times to be sure. Incidentally,  I get 
>>the same warning (cannot open Type 1 font file for reading) if I 
>>delete the pfb files from their directory.
>>
>>
>>On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:02 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>
>>>Le jeudi 8 août 2002, à 11:30 , Themis Matsoukas a écrit :
>>>
>>>>I have recently switched from Textures (I can't stand Classic) to 
>>>>TeXShop. I have the MathTimes fonts for Textures. Is there a way 
>>>>to convert these fonts for use in OS X?  If so, how do I do that? 
>>>>If not, how do I get MathTimes for OS X?
>>>
>>>Step 1: Convert the fonts to PFB format
>>>
>>>- Get Tom Kiffe's CMacTeX_OSX from <http://www.kiffe.com/tex/carbon.html>.
>>>
>>>- Open the script "lwfn2pfb script txt" and save it as an application.
>>>
>>>- Drop your OS 9 font files MTEX, MTSY and RMTMI onto the application.
>>>
>>>- Move the generated files mtex.pfb, mtsy.pfb and rmtmi.pfb to 
>>>/Library/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/type1/yandy/mathtime.
>>>
>>>
>>>Step 2: Get support files for this MathTime Basic font set
>>>
>>>- teTeX/TeXShop is set up to use MathTime Complete fonts = 
>>>MathTime Basic + MathTime Plus. Unfortunately, Blue Sky Research 
>>>ships only the MathTime Basic fonts for Textures. Thus you have to 
>>>recreate teTeX support files for MathTime Basic fonts only; 
>>>otherwise you will get many error messages about missing font 
>>>files.
>>>
>>>- Download the original mathtime directory from CTAN at 
>>><ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-
>>>archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/mathtime>.
>>>
>>>- Open mathtime.ins in TeXShop and uncomment the line:
>>>
>>>%\def\mtplus{}
>>>
>>>then LaTeX it.
>>>
>>>- Move the generated files to 
>>>/Library/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/mathtime:
>>>
>>>mathpi.sty
>>>mathtime.sty
>>>my1mtt.fd
>>>my2mtt.fd
>>>my3mtt.fd
>>>omslby.fd
>>>umh2.fd
>>>umh2scr.fd
>>>umh6.fd
>>>umtms.fd
>>>
>>>- You may want to keep documentation files in 
>>>/Library/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/latex/mathtime:
>>>
>>>mathtime.dtx
>>>mathtime.txt
>>>
>>>(the doc file is mathtime.dtx, just LaTeX it).
>>>
>>>
>>>Step 3: Tell teTeX the files are there
>>>
>>>- Launch Terminal and enter "sudo texhash".
>>>
>>>
>>>Step 4: For the hedonist
>>>
>>>- In case you're interested by more sophisticated features (like 
>>>bold math italic, upright math, heavy math, upright Greek), you 
>>>can purchase MathTime Plus fonts directly from Y&Y at 
>>><http://www.yandy.com/mathtime.htm> (I haven't, someday I will). 
>>>Ask them for the fonts in PFB format, not Mac format (unless you 
>>>want to be able to use the fonts with Textures; then you'll have 
>>>to convert them again to PFB, as before).
>>>
>>>- If you do that, then you can delete all the files and folders 
>>>created in Step 2 above.
>>>
>>>
>>>That's it, I think.
>>>
>>>Bruno Voisin
>>>
>>>
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>>Themis Matsoukas
>>___________________________________
>>Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
>>Pennsylvania State University
>>149 Fenske Lab, University Park, PA 16802
>>phone: 814-863-2002; fax: 814-865-7846
>>http://fenske.che.psu.edu/faculty/matsoukas
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