Comments/discoveries re: Antoniou problem with display

[Christina Thiele]

I've finally had some time to go through Antoniou's various files (his
test file is in fact the AMS's testmath.tex file). He sent .pdf
versions of his output (no errors when printing) and both a
screen-shot of the defective display and a scanned version of that
same page, with errors marked off -- I found many more but the problem
is all the same. The math material is not coming out right -- there
are substitutions or outright gaps.

Now, I can put the .pdf files somewhere, along with the .tex source
file, if anyone wants to test things themselves.

Here are my comments on what I've noticed -- no guarantees of course
that I've noticed essential or even important things  ;-)

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1. The .pdf screen shot is invaluable -- for the first time we now
   know that he's also got MikTeX on the same damn'd box! At least,
   there's a button named `MikTeX' down there, to the immediate left
   of the `DVIWindo' button! Can't believe he neglected to mention
   this!

2. The .tex file runs just fine on my machine ;-)) Hurray! So my LaTeX
   reinstall seems to have worked ok. However, there is one disturbing
   line in the .log file:

   LaTeX Font Info:    No file LY1cmr.fd. on input line 143.

   I don't in fact find this .fd file on either on my machine or the
   CD. Is it necessary?

3. He has not gotten back to me about whether he's installed the CM
   series of .pfb files onto his machine.

4. He had said the following about his attempts to uninstall Y&YTeX:
   > This is the standard Windows 2000 method:
   > 1. Go to Control Panel.
   > 2.  Select Add/Remove Programs
   > 3.  Click Y&Y Tex System
   > 4.  Click button Change/Remove at the bottom right-hand corner of
   > the window.
   > (I get the usual blue screen, the computer looks as if it is doing
   > something but it seems to continue like that indefinitely.
   > 5. When you click  CTRL+ALT+DELETE you get Bill's famous quote
   > ... "Program
   > Not Responding."

   Now I've asked a fellow who knows Win2000 and he says that a blue
   screen like the above is usually indicative of a serious
   system-level problem (nothing to do with TeX) and that he'd most
   likely copy all data files to a safe place, and then reinstall from
   the OS up. Antoniou's response to this problem was to just go ahead
   and re-install Y&YTeX on top -- there was no apparent displeasure
   from the machine so he's just going on from there.

5. As he keeps attaching his dviwindo.ini file, and as our mailer here
   just as diligently keeps deleting it before distributing the mail,
   I still don't have it to see if there's anything obviously
   different from mine ;-)

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His various diagnostic efforts have yielded the following comments:

> I have checked one more thing today.  All the Adobe Type 1 fonts
> with the
> "a" symbol and extension .pfm are installed in \WINNT\fonts.  They
> are
> exactly as an the CD-ROM under folder \psfonts.
>
> ...
>
> Seriously, though, I checked for the metric files with extensions
> .tfm and
> the metric filles for the computer modern fonts (those that are
> causing
> difficulties) are all present in following folder:
>
>    \yandy\FONTS\TFM\NonText\tfm-cm
>
> I do not seem to find the outline files with extensions .pfb for the
> computer modern fonts.  Should these files be installed and, if so,
> where?


> One of the fonts causing trouble at this point is the cmsy10
> font.  Selecting the font entry for cmsy10 in the "Fonts Used"
> pop-up
> window,  then pressing Shift+CTRL, and then clicking a highlighted
> character gives the correct attributes of the character in the
> pop-up
> message box (all of them, font type, character number, encoding).
> HOWEVER,
> the character shown in the pop-up message box and the one displayed
> by
> DVIWindo are wrong, as follows:
>
>      Character 0 should be a minus, I get a square box
>      Character 102 should be a left brace, I get an f
>      Character 106 should be a vertical bar, I get a j
>      Character 50 should be the "belongs to" math symbol, I get a 2
>
> If you do not happen to remember your ascii code , 50, 102, and 106
> stand
> for 2, f, and j, respectively, in most of the standard fonds, e.g.,
> the
> Times font.  In other words, even though Adobe, Type1, font cmsy10
> resides
> in the font folder, i.e., \WINNT\fonts, DVIWindo cannot find it and
> it
> substitutes a Times font.  Strangely, it does not do that with other
> fonts
> including some math fonts.

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