Font help

[Sanjay GOVINDJEE]

Ok, thanks.   Is there anything I can extract from the files to give better
hints to you?  Perhaps also there are some good questions that I can ask
the publisher about the files?
-sanjay

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 7:31 PM Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Very hard to even get started with, Sanjay, especially without looking at
> the files in more detail. Several of the fonts listed above are
> proprietary, which makes it even harder to deal with.
>
> Some of these font names remind me of the Y&Y TeX system of a few years
> back. It would be nice to look at the original "log" file to find out where
> it was processed in order to plan a structure to deal with. Installing the
> fonts in a new system is very easy -- via XeTeX, and that may be a path to
> solve this problem.
>
> Paulo Ney
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 6:02 PM Sanjay Govindjee <s_g at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> I am working on a book and the publisher has sent me the prior edition's
>> files.  I am trying to get the files to compile using latex from the
>> texlive installation on my Mac but am running into trouble with how to
>> deal with the fonts since they appear not to be where latex wants them
>> or there are additional problems.
>>
>> One folder from the publisher contains font files as follows:
>>
>> HVB_____.PFB    HV______.PFB    ITC-OWBK.FNT    MTEX.PFM MTMI.PFM
>> MTMIB.PFM    MTSYN.PFM    OWBI____.PFM OWB_____.PFM    Offici-B.fnt
>> TIBI____.PFM    TIB_____.PFM TII_____.PFM    TIR_____.PFM
>> ZD______.PFM    timesbd.ttf
>> HVB_____.PFM    HV______.PFM    MTEX.PFB    MTMI.PFB    MTMIB.PFB
>> MTSYN.PFB    OWBI____.PFB    OWB_____.PFB    Offic-BI.fnt
>> TIBI____.PFB    TIB_____.PFB    TII_____.PFB    TIR_____.PFB
>> ZD______.PFB    times.ttf
>>
>> and some of these appear to be loaded in the style files:
>>
>> Kumba_symbols.tex:\font\rrmu=mtgu at 10pt
>> P04_Zienk.sty:\font\tmb=tib at 15pt
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\chapheadfont=TGB2 at 12pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:%\font\chapfont=TGL at 22pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\authorfont=TGB at 14pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\affilfont=TGO at 10pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\tocfont=TGB at 8pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\itemheadfont=TGB at 10pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\zapfont=ZD at 2.75pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\tabfootfont=HVO at 7.5pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\tabentriesfont=HV at 8.5pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\tabcolheadfont=HVB at 8.5pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\tabcolheadsupfont=HVO at 5.7pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\tabcolsubheadfont=HVBO at 8.5pt%
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\titgr=hvmbi at 20pt
>> P04_Zienk.tex:\font\higr=hvmbi at 13pt
>>
>> when I try to run latex it fails at the load of \font\tmb=tib as latex
>> tries to run 'mktextfm tib' and then complains " I can't find file `tib'
>> ".  Any help on pointer on how to get things running (even minimally)
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -sanjay
>>
>>
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