marvosym encoding...

[Jonas Gomes]

Dear Robin,

I am very sorry, when I wrote
dvips I meant dvipsone..
I use yandy since version
1.something , and I love
dvipsone
I would never stop using it.
Your system is really
superb and I have already told
this to Louis Vollo.

I have payed and downloaded
the wasy symbol fonts from
yandy web page,
I have installed them on my
yandy tex and everything is
working
properly,
including dvipsone.

I tried to do the same
procedure with the marvo
symbol font
and it did not work at all.

Some differences:
Besides the font files (.pfb,
.pfm, .afm and .tfm)the
wasysymbol
fonts came with the font
description file .fd and with
the tex
style file  wasysymb.sty. The
marvosymbol file I downloaded
from
yandy web page brings only the
different font files: pfb,
pfm, tfm and
afm.

- Isn't the .fd file
important? Is the marvosym
font description
  already include in yandy
tex? Even with this doubt I
proceeded
  to install the font. I did
exactly the following:

- I installed the marvosym
font on windows2000 (no ATM).

- I wrote a simple test file
using some of the common
names available on the
marvosym.sty package \Male,
\Female, etc.

I tried it, and it did not
work at all, even on dviwindo
I could not get
the
right preview: it did not
complain of the font but the
encoding was totally wrong.

Then I noticed that in the
beginning of the marvosim.sty
file we have:

------------------------------
------
\ProvidesPackage{marvosym}
  [2000/05/01 v2.0 Martin
Vogel's Symbols font
definitions]
\DeclareFontFamily{OT1}{mvs}{}
\DeclareFontShape{OT1}{mvs}{m}
{n}{<-> fmvr8x}{}
\def\mvs{\usefont{OT1}{mvs}{m}
{n}}
\def\mvchr{\mvs\char}
\def\textmvs#1{{\mvs #1}}
------------------------------
------

I replaced the above lines by
the two
lines below:

------------------------------
-------
\font\myfont = marvosym at 10
pt
\def\mvchr{\myfont\char}
------------------------------
-------

Also, I used dviwindo to
generate new .tfm and .afm
files
(even though I know that this
should not matter).

At this time My test file
worked fine, and I could
preview
the symbols I have typed in my
test file, correctly, on
DVIWINDO.

But, when I run DVIPSONE to
generate the postscript file
I get the following output:

-----------------------------
dvifile: main.dvi
outfile: main.ps
DVIPSONE (32) 2.1.7 1999 May
17 13:05:44 SN 308Copyright
(C) 1990--1999,
Y&Y, Inc.  (978) 371-3286
http://www.YandY.com
Processing DVI file main.dvi
(to main.ps)
*** ERROR: 4 characters used
not in encoding 4 characters
(out of 7) not
found:  (124) (125) (126)
(131).
Time: 0.45 sec (0.067 sec per
font file + 0.25 sec per page
output)
2 errors encountered

Press any key to continue . .
.
------------------------------

And, of course, some of the
characters are missing on the
postscript
file.

It seems to me that there is
an encoding problem...


Regards,
Jonas