Missing fonts?

[Steve McKinnon]

My mistake about the CM fonts. I thought they were standard, but I checked the
Y&Y site and you are right - they must be purchased! At least that issue is
solved.

I think you are right about this being a setup problem. I copied the original
hello_mt.dvi and dviwindo displays it fine. The problem is earlier, with the
LaTeX processing of the .tex file. I checked with the other demo .dvi files,
but as expected, dviwindo complained about missing fonts.

I LaTeX'd other files and they all return version 2.2.8 to the dviwindo.ini
file record and 2.2.4 to the .log file.

About WinEdt, I was previously using it with MikTeX and all worked fine. I
just switched the configuration to the Y&Y menu and it finds the LaTeX files
from the Y&Y installation okay. That's why the path to the editor is probably
non-standard.

Now for font locations. I did a search for mtex and found the following:
mtex.pfb and mtex.pfm both in c:\WINNT\Fonts
mtex.tfm in c:\yandy\fonts\nontext\tfm-mt
the c:\winnt\fonts directory has all of the .pfm fonts that are on the
installation disk, but I noticed it does not have any of the .pfb files that
are on the installation disk. However, it sounds like these are not needed.

Is the "corrupted NFSS tables." message in the YANDYTEX DOS box during texing
significant? There was an initial problem with my CD-ROM CTAN installation,
but I was sent a new CD-ROM with this fixed. This may be unrelated but could
be a piece of the puzzle.

Thanks again.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Christina Thiele [mailto:cthiele at ccs.carleton.ca]
Sent: June 6, 2003 3:40 PM
To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject: Re: Missing fonts?


Steve, I just had a message from the Y&Y office, where someone always
tries to check to see what exactly a person has bought -- not just
TeX, but also the fonts ...

Geez, I hate to tell you this -- but you didn't _buy_ the CM fonts! So
you can't process or display files that want CM fonts. If you do want
the CM fonts, you'll need to get in touch with admin at yandy.com.


Steve McKinnon writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, here is some more info:
>
> The operating system is Windows 2000 Professional. This was a first
> time ever Y&Y installation. All fonts were installed before the Y&Y

But ... the .log file you included when you tried processing
hello_MT.tex begins this way:

C:\yandy\TEXINPUT
C:\yandy\yandytex\tex.bat +latex "hello_MT.tex"
Y&Y TeX 2.2.4 2001 Sep 14 07:07:38 SN 5002
Copyright (C) 1993--2001 Y&Y, Inc.  http://www.YandY.com
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Y&Y TeX 2.2.4)
(hello_MT.tex

And line 3 up there indicates version 2.2.4, while your .ini file
indicates v.2.2.8 ...

Do all your .log files show 2.2.4?

I have to admit I don't really know if this is significant -- my .ini
file says I've got v.2.2.3 while my log files all show 2.2.2 ;-) And
it doesn't seem to have any effect on procesing files.

Can anyone else with v.2.2.8 confirm their log files show 2.2.4? If
yes, then this is just a `fact of life' and we go fish in another part
of the pond ;-)


Your original message said:

> ...hello_MT.tex
> was more disastrous; a copy of the LaTeX execution DOS box is:

That is, you tried to process the .tex file. Why that didn't work, I'm
not sure yet (see below, where I talk about double-checking that all
font file formats are present).

What I'd like you to do is open up DVIWINDO, and then, via Shift-Ins,
locate and double-click to display the original hello_MT.dvi file --
or has it already been overwritten by your having tried to process the
.tex file? If the date on the .dvi file is today's, then you'll need
to locate the one that's on the CD in the \demo folder.

In short, let's try to just see if your DVIWINDO will display existing
.dvi files.

As for the .ini file, I compared yours with mine and it doesn't _seem_
to be that much different -- other than OS-specific items.


> system or LaTeX (I used the menu activated in Explorer to do
> this). ...

Euh, `the menu activated in Explorer' to do which? The font install or
the Y&YTeX? The fonts are to be installed as described on p.5 of the
smaller manual, where it says that the .pfm files with the red-a icon
are dragged from the CD over to the \winnt\fonts folder.

Let's check on the MathTime fonts next. Can you do a C-drive-level
search to locate where all these files are, just to check that they
did all get installed -- let's choose, uh, ... mtex or mtmi, for
example. So, look for mtex.* and mtmi.* files. And make sure you've
got your Window set to display file extensions, and all hidden files
as well. Don't let Windows hide anything from your search!


> ... The entire dviwindo.ini file is pasted below, but with regard
> to the *strange* path entry, I added that as a path to the fonts in
> the MikTeX distribution I used previously. That was an attempt to
> see if those fonts could be used, but no luck. You'll see entries
> for the other variables you mentioned which must be part of the

Yes, they mirror mine.

> original setup. I also added a path to WinEdt, which I had been
> using previously too. I had a look through the manuals but didn't

`Previously' ... but for non-TeX applications?

> see anything obvious, but being new to TeX I could easily miss
> something.

Well, I'm not sure we're talking about a TeX problem per se, as these
hello_*.* files are demonstration files and so do work. It's more
likely a setup problem somewhere ...

> Many thanks,
>
> Steve
>

If anyone else has any suggestions on what Steve should/could check,
please post ;-)

Ch.