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

Dave McCollum mccollum at colorado.edu
Fri Aug 9 20:27:03 CEST 2002



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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