Re: fake small caps for times with TeXnANSIEncoding encoding?

[Rebecca and Rowland <rebecca@astrid.u-net.com>]

At 1:36 pm +0100 26/9/98, Thomas Esser wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'd like to have a faked small caps for Times-Roman and Times-Bold in
>LY1 encoding. Is there someone who can tell me how to get ptmbc8y.vf
>and ptmrc8y.vf (these should map into the 8r fonts, of course)?
>
>The reason for my question is that I am just setting up Lucida Bright
>and Mathtime and my idea is to get everything working for OT1, T1 and LY1.
>The LY1 files refer to tibsc.pfb and tirsc.pfb:
>
>ptmbc8y Times-BoldSC "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc <tibsc.pfb
>ptmrc8y Times-RomanSC "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc <tirsc.pfb
>
>but I don't have these. I'd be grateful for any help.

I'm guessing here (not being any sort of expert), but...  What I'd try
first would be this: make a copy of ot1c.etx, re-name it 8rc.etx, and
change it to load 8r.etx rather than ot1.etx.

Then...  Maybe a line like:

\installfont {ptmbc8y} {ptmb8r,latin} {8yc} {8y} {ptm}{b}{sc} {}

in a fontinst file would do the trick.

It might be that:

\installfont {ptmbc8y} {ptmb8r,8y} {8yc} {8y} {ptm}{b}{sc} {}

is a better idea.

(you'll need to add some other lines around that one, including something
to create ptmb8r.mtx from ptmb8a.afm; ask again if you don't know how)


Hope this helps
Rowland.