[tex-live] Re: Re: tl2005 (0923) testing

[George N. White III]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Karl Berry wrote:

>    TeX Live crew needs to ensure that
>    the fonts needed by protosem.sty and yhmath.sty are installed
>    correctly for pdflatex, dvips, xdvi, etc.
>
> I am looking at yhmath first.  I don't understand it.  Where did
> yrcmex10.tfm come from and what is it?  What should the map file entry
> for it be, that is, what pfb should be downloaded and should any
> transformations be done?  Scott, what are you using?  I don't see any
> mention of yrcmex10 in the yhmath documentation, etc.  Maybe I'm not
> looking in the right place.

texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/yhmath/yhcmex10.vf refers to yrcmex10

> Also, the only outline font I see in this area is TeX-yhcmex10.pfb in
> TL, but ychmex.pfa is what is on CTAN:fonts/yhmath (with a later date).
> Anyone know what the story is there?
>
> And finally, does anyone know the relationship between the
> CTAN:fonts/yhmath and CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/yhmath?  The former has
> a yhmath.sty, whether that's generated from yhmath.dtx in the latter I
> don't know.  It seems bizarre to split the package over two different
> directories, but maybe that's just the way it is.
>
> After that mess, must have lunch before tackling protosem :).

Google found postings on MacOSX-TeX discussing the problem with 
yhmath and a recommendation to change a map file that doesn't look like 
the one in TeX Live:

> Am 30.05.2005 um 18:26 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
>
>> yrcmex10	Yhcmex	< yhcmex.pfa
>
> *That's* the problem: you can't use the *raw* encoded font but have to
> use the finally encoded font instead when you don't know the encoding
> vector. The correct map file entry is:
>
> 	yhcmex10 Yhcmex
> This makes (La)TeX use the right VF file. The route TeX -> DVI -> PS
> -> PDF works too!

I don't follow this reasoning -- LaTeX looks for yhcmex10, finds the .vf
file, and is told to look for yrcmex10.

-- 
George N. White III  <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>