On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:54, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nberk@nist.gov">nberk@nist.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've installed my Y&Y TeX distribution (ca. 1998) on Vista Home<br>
Premium (x64), following Herb Gintis's instructions, more or less.<br>
<br>
1) When I attempt to invoke DVIwindow from WinEDT, I get the message<br>
"Too Many TT Fonts installed", and it won't run. I do have lots of<br>
fonts, largely from some Broderbund software. There are way too many<br>
of these to uninstall by hand, and I do use that other software. Is<br>
this some built-in limitation of dviwindo? Am I dead in the water?</blockquote><div><br>I don't use Vista, but I will try to make some suggestions that might help you<br>or not. <br><br>I believe that the TT-font related message is produced by WinEdt. The version<br>
you are using is quite old, perhaps not even the WinEdt32. I think the old<br>versions of Windows programs had a limit on the number of fonts they could<br>handle.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2) When I double-click the WinEDT (v. 1.414) icon, sometimes nothing<br>
happens, but it always loads when I double-click a .tex file icon. Is<br>
this a Vista "thing"? Would it be helpful to get a more recent version<br>
of WinEdt?</blockquote><div><br>I believe so. The most recent version is 5.4, I believe. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
3) Herb Gintis mentions not to use ATM but he does indicate that he<br>
has .pfm files. Where did these come from, since they're no on the Y&Y<br>
distribution CD. To my knowledge, Vista can use Type 1 fonts without<br>
.pfm files, and the installed Type 1 fonts do show up and display in<br>
the Vista Fonts folder and (at least some of them) in some other apps.</blockquote><div><br>I got them from CTAN, as I originally only purchased Lucida and Times from<br>Y&Y.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
4) Should I give up on Y&Y and try MikTeX or PCTex?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Maybe we all should... but MikTeX and PCTeX are still a lot worse than my Y&Y.<br>I have made copies of the installation CD and will hold on to it as long as I can,<br>but the ranks are thinning quickly.<br>
<br clear="all">--jrs.<br>