[OS X TeX] OS X TeX] How install & use genuine Adobe Times-Roman small caps fonts?

Michael Sharpe msharpe at ucsd.edu
Sat Aug 16 04:07:24 CEST 2014


On Aug 15, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> (1) Is the ztmsc.map file you refer to the same as the ztm.map file you specified in an earlier post to this thread? That is, containing:
> 
> 
>    ptmrc8r Times-RomanSC " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <[8r.enc <ptmrc8a.pfb
>    ptmbc8r Times-BoldSC " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <[8r.enc <ptmbc8a.pfb
> 
> (2) After processing ptmr8a.afm and ptmbc8r.afm with ...
> 
>    % !TEX TS-program = tex
>    \input fontinst.sty
>    \declareencoding{UNSPECIFIED}{8r}
>    \needsfontinstversion{1.933}
> 
>    \installfonts
>    \transformfont{ptmr8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{ptmr8a}}}
>    \transformfont{ptmrc8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{ptmrc8a}}}
>    \transformfont{ptmb8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{ptmb8a}}}
>    \transformfont{ptmbc8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{ptmbc8a}}}
>    \installfamily{T1}{ztm}{}
>    \installfont{ztmrc8t}
>      {ptmrc8r,%
>     ptmr8r,%
>      newlatin}
>     {t1}{T1}{ztm}{m}{sc}{}
>    \installfont{ztmbc8t}
>      {ptmbc8r,%
>      ptmb8r,%
>      newlatin}
>     {t1}{T1}{ztm}{b}{sc}{}
>    \endinstallfonts
> 
>    \bye
> 
> ... and running the generated .pl and .vpl through pltotf and vptovf, to what, if anything, do I rename the resulting .fd files -- or an other files -- before using them in conjunction with newtxext?
> 
> (3) What specifies to use (Adobe) Times as the body text font? Or do I need to include a \rmdefault{ptm} command for that?
> 
> (4) Does any of this help to use MathTime Pro 2 fonts for math to accompany Adobe Times for text, including Adobe Times-Roman small caps?  How?
> 
> 
> (Thank you for your continuing work and assistance on this. Without it I'd be even more lost than I am, since my ignorance of TeX font issues is boundless.)

The correct name for tha map file is now ztmsc.map, not the one I posted earlier. You should not have to do anything with fontinst---everything is already in the package. The line

\usepackage[adobsc]{newtxtext} 

loads newtxtext, bringing up the URW Times clones as text fonts, unless you've changed that changing the settings in updmap.cfg to specify Adobe Times ---see below. If you have those Adobe fonts, it's easier to leave them in their original names, eg, tir_____.pfb and  use

sudo -H updmap-sys --setoption LW35 ADOBE

or, if you keep font maps in your home texmf,

updmap --setoption LW35 ADOBE


 With option adobesc, upright shapes of small caps will be rendered with your Adobe TimesSC.  

Michael


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