[OS X TeX] lucida installation
chip brock
brock at pa.msu.edu
Wed Jun 19 03:06:21 CEST 2002
somehow this didn't go this morning??
thanks,
Chip
On 6/18/02 8:21 AM, "chip brock" <brock at pa.msu.edu> wrote:
> hi
>
> Well, my permissions are:
>
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock% pwd
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock% ls -al
> total 0
> drwxrwxrwx 7 root admin 194 Jun 17 22:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 9 root admin 262 Jun 17 21:59 ..
> drwxrwxrwx 16 root admin 500 Jun 17 22:57 lubright
> drwxrwxrwx 20 root admin 636 Jun 17 22:45 lucida
> drwxrwxrwx 10 root admin 296 Jun 17 22:59 lucidfax
> drwxrwxrwx 22 root admin 704 Jun 17 22:52 lucsans
> drwxrwxrwx 24 root admin 772 Jun 17 23:03 lumath
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock% ls ./lumath
> LBMA.PFB LBMD.PFB LBMDO.PFB LBMI.PFB LBMS.PFB LBR.PFB
> LBMAD.PFB LBMDI.PFB LBME.PFB LBMO.PFB LBMSD.PFB
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock%
>
> You'll notice that I've removed the lowercase versions. That didn't help
> with the missing math symbols. Also, I've attached my source file and the
> pdf that it makes. I think that the font is largely lucida, but you'll see
> that there are problems with the letter f and math symbols. If you look at
> the Document Fonts in the pdf, you'll also see that this is weird, as it was
> in the simple comparison file that Michael sent me last night .
>
> Is there anything funky about the directory structure where this lives?
>
>
> If possible, it would be interesting to see you run my file (there is one
> macro file that's mine - prd_input.tex - that you can take out without
> causing much pain.
>
> thanks, Adrian and Michael for your slogging through this with me...
>
> Chip
>
>
>
> On 6/18/02 3:03 AM, "Adrian Heathcote"
> <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>> what do you mean specifically by 'encoding'?
>>
>> The encoding is a mapping of glyph positions onto some new set of
>> positions so that TeX knows where to find them.
>>
>>> And, where do the vf, and
>>> balance of the tfm files go? I gather that if I were a wintel machine, I
>>> would have received an installer with the download...!
>>
>> The positions for the vf files are in the fonts folder with the tfm
>> folder and the type 1 folder. They are named separately.
>>>
>>> In the old days, outline fonts meant one thing, in this business, what
>>> does
>>> it mean?
>>
>> It means the .pfb files. These are what cost all the money. The rest can
>> be freely distributed.
>>>
>>> All that I 'installed' were the pfb fonts, since that seemed to work for
>>> Michael before. What I did specifically is download and unzip the files
>>> from
>>> yandy. I created the directories from
>>>
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy
>>>
>>> to match the tfm directories, copied the corresponding yandy pfb files
>>> into
>>> my new directories one for each that existed already in the
>>>
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/yandy
>>>
>>> directory. Then, since they were all UPPER CASE after unzipping, I made
>>> copies of them and by hand changed the originals to lower case, leaving
>>> the
>>> copies still there, as it made it easy to see that I changed them
>>> properly
>>> without a typo. Then I started to use them.
>>
>> I didn't change from upper to lowercase and wonder if that is where your
>> problem came in. Try installing the originals with their uppercase names.
>>>
>>> The ..../tfm/yandy directories contain:
>>>
>>> [brock:fonts/tfm/yandy] brock% ls -R
>>> courier lucida lucsans mathpi mathtime times
>>> lubright lucidfax lumath mathplus symbol zapfding
>>>
>>> namely:
>>>
>>> ./lubright:
>>> lbd.tfm lbdi.tfm lbdsc.tfm lbi.tfm lbr.tfm lbrsc.tfm lbsl.tfm
>>>
>>> ./lucida:
>>> lbh.tfm lbkr.tfm lbtb.tfm lbto.tfm
>>> lbc.tfm lbki.tfm lbl.tfm lbtbo.tfm lbtr.tfm
>>>
>>> ./lucidfax:
>>> lfd.tfm lfdi.tfm lfi.tfm lfr.tfm
>>>
>>> ./lucsans:
>>> lsb.tfm lsd.tfm lsi.tfm lstb.tfm lsto.tfm
>>> lsbi.tfm lsdi.tfm lsr.tfm lstbo.tfm lstr.tfm
>>>
>>> ./lumath:
>>> lbma.tfm lbmd.tfm lbmdo.tfm lbmi.tfm lbmr.tfm lbmsd.tfm
>>> lbmad.tfm lbmdi.tfm lbme.tfm lbmo.tfm lbms.tfm
>>>
>> Also: you really don't need everything about encoding in the preamble.
>> Just put
>>
>> \usepackage[expert]{lucidabr}
>>
>> That should work if everything is configured correctly.
>>
>> But it sound as if your system doesn't know that the pfb fonts are
>> there. (You can see what lucida fonts should look like by looking at The
>> Latex Companion. It was done in lucida.)
>>
>> Send a sample perhaps
>>
>> Adrian Heathcote
>>
>>
>
>
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