[OS X TeX] A bit of everything (2/4)

Tue Mar 22 22:13:10 CET 2011

Lucida and MathTime
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Up-to-date versions of the Lucida and MathTime fonts can be purchased for the first from TUG and PCTeX

	http://www.tug.org/store/lucida/ 
	http://www.pctex.com/Lucida_Fonts.html

and from the second from PCTeX alone

	http://www.pctex.com/mtpro2.html

The font support files for Lucida come from CTAN at

	http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/bh/lucida/

The LaTeX support package for Lucida is lucidabr in the TUG distribution and is taken from CTAN at

	http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr/

In the PC TeX distribution it is lucimatx and can be downloaded for free without the fonts from the Lucida purchase page

	http://www.pctex.com/fonts.html#Lucida_Fonts

The packages install in TeX Live exactly as described in their installation instructions, no specific adaptation is required. If you're willing to use the original font names lbr etc. (for example if you're using the plain TeX macro file lcdplain.tex from the original Y&Y or Blue Sky Research distribution of the fonts), you just have to create symlinks as indicated in section 4 of my old message <http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2007-January/027878.html> then make sure to add

	\input texnansi

in your plain TeX files.

Textures metrics for the LW35 fonts
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Some of you may have old documents prepared with Textures and using its original metrics for the LaserWriter 35 fonts, namely

	AvantGarde
	AvantGardeB
	AvantGardeBI
	AvantGardeI
	Bookman
	BookmanB
	BookmanBI
	BookmanI
	Chancery
	Courier
	CourierB
	CourierBI
	CourierI
	Dingbats
	Helvetica
	HelveticaB
	HelveticaBI
	HelveticaI
	HelveticaN
	HelveticaNB
	HelveticaNBI
  	HelveticaNI
	HelveticaO
	Palatino
	PalatinoB
	PalatinoBI
	PalatinoI
	Schoolbook
	SchoolbookB
	SchoolbookBI
	SchoolbookI
	Symbol
	Times
	TimesB
	TimesBI
	TimesI

The meaning of these names is obvious, save for HelveticaO which is an outline font (in the sense that the "body" of the characters is empty, only their outline is drawn).

In addition, there was a nice textures-psfonts LaTeX package by Vincent Jalby in two places on the Textures 2.1 CD:

	CD Extras/Extra fonts & metrics/textures-psfonts ƒ 
	Useful Files/textures-psfonts ƒ 

This package emulated the behaviour of the PSNFSS package based on the above metrics, and contained a suitcase "LW SmallCaps VF Metrics" of virtual small caps metrics:

	AvantGardeBSC
	AvantGardeSC
	BookmanBSC
	BookmanSC
	CourierBSC
	CourierSC
	HelveticaBSC
	HelveticaNBSC
	HelveticaNSC
	HelveticaSC
	PalatinoBSC
	PalatinoSC
	SchoolbookBSC
	SchoolbookSC
	TimesBSC
	TimesSC

The metrics suitcase for the MathTime fonts also contained an oblique Times metrics and a variable-spacing Courier font:

	CourierVSP
	TimesO

In case you're interested in reusing these old documents with TeX Live, the adaptation is possible but far from trivial. You need EdMetrics which is available at <ftp://ftp.bluesky.com/utilities/EdMetrics.sea.hqx>. EdMetrics is a Mac OS Classic application, meaning you need either a working Classic setup or a SheepShaver installation <http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup>. Getting SheepShaver to work is quite an experience, and took me two or three days at least. Beware too that it is pretty unstable: you can use it, but don't move the mouse too fast, don't open too many windows, don't breathe too heavily, that sort of things... Otherwise it will just crash. All things being relative, the 25-10-2009 build appears more reliable than the 06-11-2010 build.

First, in case you have Textures 2.1 and below, open it in Edmetrics, you'll see directly the metrics it contains. In case you have Textures 2.2 (ie the beta OS X version), Ctrl-Click or Right-Click on it, select "Show Package Contents" and navigate to Textures.app/Contents/Resources/Metrics/, then select "TeX Metrics", open it in EdMetrics, like this:

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For each metrics, press the "Make VPL" button. This will save the metrics to a PL file.

Do the same with the suitcases "LW SmallCaps VF Metrics" and "MathTime metrics". This will save each virtual metrics to a VPL file. If you're planning to use CourierVSP.vpl, you'll need to edit it by converting CMTT10 in

	(MAPFONT D 1
	   (FONTNAME CMTT10)

to lowercase, yielding

	(MAPFONT D 1
	   (FONTNAME cmtt10)

Then put all these files into a directory, cd into it in Terminal and run

	apply vptovf *.vpl
	apply pltotf *.pl

This converts all the metrics to TFM and VF files.

For TimesO, it is safer to recreate the metrics with afm2tfm (and create an accompanying TimesBO while you're at it). The AFM files ptmr8a.afm and ptmb8a.afm from TeX Live will be used.

But first another matter must be settled: the encodings used by Textures must be translated into ENC files, that dvips, pdfTeX and dvipdfm can use. Y&Y did most of the work, by creating VEC files reproducing these encodings. Namely,

	http://code.google.com/p/yytex/source/browse/trunk/fonts/vec/texmac.vec
	http://code.google.com/p/yytex/source/browse/trunk/fonts/vec/texmax.vec

reproduce respectively the effects of setting, in EdMetrics,

	PostScript map -> Roman->MacintoshStandard
	PostScript encoding -> MacintoshStandard

and

	PostScript map -> Typewriter->MacintoshStandard
	PostScript encoding -> MacintoshStandard

The first encoding is called LM1 by Y&Y (and LT1 by textures-psfonts), see <http://www.tug.org/yandy/ly1faq.htm>, and the second LM2. The first VEC file is already available as an ENC file

	http://code.google.com/p/yytex/source/browse/trunk/fonts/vec/texmac.enc

For the second I've similarly prepared a texmax.enc.

Now you can create TimesO and TimesBO. The "obvious"

	afm2tfm ptmr8a -s .167 -p texmac TimesO
	afm2tfm ptmb8a -s .167 -p texmac TimesBO

doesn't work, because the resulting metrics don't contain any ligature. Use instead

	afm2tfm ptmr8a -s .167 -u -p 8r -t texmac -v TimesO ptmro8r
	vptovf TimesO

	afm2tfm ptmb8a -s .167 -u -p 8r -t texmac -v TimesBO ptmbo8r
	vptovf TimesBO

This creates TimesO and TimesBO as virtual re-encodings of ptmro8r and ptmbo8r to texmac.enc, respectively.

All these metrics have the usual ligatures but not the less standard ones, namely the French <<, the german ,, and so forth. I don't know whether that's an inherent limitation of the Textures encoding, or some error in the above procedure.

Now you "just" have to write a map file associating the metrics with the URW clones of the LaserWriter 35 fonts in TeX Live. Namely:

	AvantGarde URWGothicL-Book "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uagk8a.pfb
	AvantGardeB URWGothicL-Demi "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uagd8a.pfb
	AvantGardeBI URWGothicL-DemiObli "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uagdo8a.pfb
	AvantGardeI URWGothicL-BookObli "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uagko8a.pfb
	Bookman URWBookmanL-Ligh "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <ubkl8a.pfb
	BookmanB URWBookmanL-DemiBold "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <ubkd8a.pfb
	BookmanBI URWBookmanL-DemiBoldItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <ubkdi8a.pfb
	BookmanI URWBookmanL-LighItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <ubkli8a.pfb
	Chancery URWChanceryL-MediItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uzcmi8a.pfb
	Courier NimbusMonL-Regu "TexturesTypewriter ReEncodeFont" <texmax.enc <ucrr8a.pfb
	CourierB NimbusMonL-Bold "TexturesTypewriter ReEncodeFont" <texmax.enc <ucrb8a.pfb
	CourierBI NimbusMonL-BoldObli "TexturesTypewriter ReEncodeFont" <texmax.enc <ucrbo8a.pfb
	CourierI NimbusMonL-ReguObli "TexturesTypewriter ReEncodeFont" <texmax.enc <ucrro8a.pfb
	Dingbats Dingbats <uzdr.pfb
	Helvetica NimbusSanL-Regu "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uhvr8a.pfb
	HelveticaB NimbusSanL-Bold "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uhvb8a.pfb
	HelveticaBI NimbusSanL-BoldItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uhvbo8a.pfb
	HelveticaI NimbusSanL-ReguItal "Textures ReEncodeFont " <texmac.enc <uhvro8a.pfb
	HelveticaN NimbusSanL-ReguCond "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uhvr8ac.pfb
	HelveticaNB NimbusSanL-BoldCond	"Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uhvb8ac.pfb
	HelveticaNBI NimbusSanL-BoldCondItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uhvbo8ac.pfb
	HelveticaNI NimbusSanL-ReguCondItal "Textures ReEncodeFont " <texmac.enc <uhvro8ac.pfb
	HelveticaO NimbusSanL-Regu "/PaintType 2 store Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uhvr8a.pfb
	Palatino URWPalladioL-Roma "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uplr8a.pfb
	PalatinoB URWPalladioL-Bold "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uplb8a.pfb
	PalatinoBI URWPalladioL-BoldItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uplbi8a.pfb
	PalatinoI URWPalladioL-Ital "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uplri8a.pfb
	Schoolbook CenturySchL-Roma "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uncr8a.pfb
	SchoolbookB CenturySchL-Bold "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uncb8a.pfb
	SchoolbookBI CenturySchL-BoldItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uncbi8a.pfb
	SchoolbookI CenturySchL-Ital "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <uncri8a.pfb
	Symbol StandardSymL <usyr.pfb
	Times NimbusRomNo9L-Regu "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <utmr8a.pfb
	TimesB NimbusRomNo9L-Medi "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <utmb8a.pfb
	TimesBI NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <utmbi8a.pfb
	TimesI NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal "Textures ReEncodeFont" <texmac.enc <utmri8a.pfb

Attached is an archive containing the MAP and ENC files plus TimesO and TimesBO, but not the other PL, VPL, TFM and VF files which I imagine can be considered part of the Textures application and hence cannot be redistributed.

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