Font help
Sanjay Govindjee
s_g at berkeley.edu
Fri Oct 28 17:58:47 CEST 2022
Thanks! Great to know there is an expert next door; I guess that is
the way it always works at Berkeley :) Let's see what the publisher
comes back with and then I will contact you. I'm out of the office for
the next 1+ weeks.
-sanjay
On 10/28/22 8:27 AM, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> Yes, in general, the way style files are written they tend to be
> complete and call for way more fonts then would end up being used in
> the book.
>
> Asking for everything they have would be one of the best ways to
> proceed, but be aware that if this is from Y&Y TeX, as I believe,
> chances are he may not have much more.
>
> If you want me to look at the files with you, give me a howl, I am in
> the next building over (Evans)...though not today, next week.
>
> Paulo Ney
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:30 PM Sanjay Govindjee <s_g at berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the advice. I started by replacing these fonts with
> ones that I thought matched to some degree the original intent,
> say, times, helvetica, etc. However as I got into it, I realized
> that the style files were grabbing an untold number of hard to
> decipher fonts -- though google is pretty helpful.
>
> I think I am going to go back to the publisher and ask them to run
> the compile of the book and send a zip of the complete run, log
> files and all. At that point I can look in the log files and I
> can ask them details of their configuration.
>
> Thanks for trying to help me out.
> -sanjay
> On 10/27/22 8:56 PM, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:30 PM Sanjay GOVINDJEE
>> <s_g at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, thanks. Is there anything I can extract from the files
>> to give better hints to you?
>>
>>
>> Producing an MWE (minimal working example) that shows the problem
>> would be nice, but this could be hard if you are starting from a
>> "book" that has its own style files, etc ...
>>
>> Perhaps also there are some good questions that I can ask the
>> publisher about the files?
>> -sanjay
>>
>>
>> Having a "complete" set of files, that is also
>> including LOG-files is a must. From the log-file we would be able
>> to tell what system is it and possibly how hard it would be to
>> run it inside a modern TeXLive system. Make sure you ask them for
>> the complete-original set of files... even the dates on these
>> files can help finding out what is the system they run and what
>> will take to update it. It is a bit of forensics...
>>
>> Another thing you can do, it to replace these fonts that are
>> being problematic, in this case
>>
>> TIB.PFB
>>
>> with something trivial (and more modern, and available) just to
>> make it process, and then later replace it back with
>> something that can really replace it. I think the names TIR, TII,
>> TIB, ... stand for Times-Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, etc
>> ... so it won't be hard to find something modern to replace it.
>>
>> These names were used by ATM Fonts management and it is old tech
>> and hard to mimic in these days TeXLive.
>>
>> The sources though should be good and very usable.
>>
>> Paulo Ney
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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