CM fonts on Windows XP

[Christina Thiele]

Lang, Daniel B. writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> We have a site license for Y&Y TeX version 2.2 (15 computers, S/N 852,
> 853, 854 & 2178).
> The software has been working fine on our Windows 2000 machines.
> Recently, we installed Windows XP on one of our computers and installed
> the W2K fonts
> and Y&Y TeX version 2.2.
>
> Most of it seems to be working but TeX cannot find the CM fonts.  Any
> idea
> what we are doing wrong?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Daniel Lang
>

Did you install the fonts from the 2.2. CD? If yes, check if there's a
CM folder on the CD.

If there _is_ a CM folder on the CD, then install manually, as per
instructions in the smaller manual -- p.5, section 2.2 `Installing
Fonts with ATM -- Windows 2000'. Note that the documentation is `a
little outdated', from a time when XP was just becoming available, so
all references to it always seem to start with `Win2000' ;-)

If there's no CM folder on the CD, then they weren't purchased, and so
the ones on your Win2000 machines probably came from another source.

This came up just the other day -- other sources of CM fonts. Let me
poke around and locate the URL ...

OK. Here we go. Here's the message which was posted by another member
of the techsupport Forum:

> If CM fonts were not purchased with your copy of Y&Y TeX, good ones
> can be downloaded for free from CTAN.
>
>    http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/
>
> I have had no trouble installing and using them under at least 3 or 4
> versions of Windows (including Windows XP).  However, any advice
> needed will have to be provided by others.  I understand that these
> fonts, though developed in large part by Y&Y, aren't *quite* as good
> as the ones available for purchase. However, they have been quite good
> enough for my needs (mostly other people's documents, as I prefer the
> Lucida fonts in my own work).
>


Oh, one other thing. Check your dviwindo.ini file (in c:winnt or
c:windows) and confirm the paths to the fonts. Keep in mind that CM
fonts are NOT text fonts, so their files area all in folders with
`nontext' in the pathname.

In the smaller manual, section 4.9, `Font Problems', tells you how to
invoke the on-screen `map' of a font, which also yields information on
how it's been encoded. Type Ctrl-F to get to it quickly (it's also
accessed via Fonts > Show Font).

I hope the above helps. If not, just post again, and maybe someone
else can provide you with more insight.

Ch.

P.S. I see that your message includes your site's serial numbers.
     You should know that messages posted to `techsupport' go to
     everyone who's signed up. It's very different from the old days
     of `support at yandy.com', when all mail was seen only be Y&Y staff,
     and replies were one-on-one. Now it's pretty wide open. The
     up-side to this is that you get loads of input from lots of
     people, with varying degrees of skill (I'm at the lower end)
     and tons more experience in real-life uses of Y&YTeX, esp. XP.