Font question: New Baskerville for Y&Y

[David Ireland]

Dear Norbert, Robin and Christina,

Thanks for your responses.

There is a lot of information in the Technical Addendum, but this all seems
to assume you are using ATM.  I'm working on an XP machine and Y&Y and
apparently that means I shouldn't work with it.

>\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{pnb}
>Probably you should also use *above* this line:
>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Tried that nice simple looking solution, but I'm afraid it didn't work.

>The Fontinstallation Guide
>on CTAN

I have a copy of this now, and it is just as unclear as the Technical
Addendum.  But I'll work through and see if I can make any sense of them.

>you derive a set of y&y .tfm files from the .afm files;
>you get_those_ from the adobe site if you didn't have
>them in the first place.

They files they provided were
NBBI____.pfb
NBB____.pfb
NBR____.pfb
NBI____.pfb
NBBI____  (no file extension shown, but Windows lists as 'Type 1 font file)
NBB____
NBR____
NBI____

Are these last four the .afm files?  Can I just rename them as .afm files?
The rest of the files I have came from
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/tex/uk-tex/fonts/psfonts/adobe/baskervi/
.  Maybe I'm missing something obvious?

>The necessary conversion utilities are all in c:\yandy\utils

I took a look in the folder but am not sure which utilities I need.

I'm surprised this is apparently so difficult and find it hard to believe
that I'm the first person to come across this.

Anyway, thanks in advance for your help.  When a solution is found I'll
write an idiots' guide for future reference.

Regards

David


-----Original Message-----
From: Techsupport-owner at yandy.com [mailto:Techsupport-owner at yandy.com]On
Behalf Of Christina Thiele
Sent: 12 November 2003 23:10
To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject: Re: Font question: New Baskerville for Y&Y


David Ireland writes:
>
> Dear Techsupport Group,
>
> I'm working on a file for a book that is in default Computer Modern and I
> want to change the whole thing to New Baskerville.  I have placed in a
> folder named YANDY\FONTS\nbaskerv all the New baskerville files I think I
> need (tfm, fd, vf, and type1 files, together with config.pnb and pnb.map).
>
> Please excuse me if I am being dumb here, but what do I need to do to get
> the font working in the tex file for the book?  The Companion is somewhat
> confusing on this.  (You'll probably have guessed this is the first time I
> have done this!)
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
>
> David Ireland
>
>

Robin's message about starting with the .afm files is the way to go.

The Technical Addendum does indeed talk about doing up fonts -- but
I'm getting supper ready so can't go searching just now ;-)

If you can wait till tomorrow ... or take the T.Add. to bed as
night-time reading material ... ;-))

The necessary conversion utilities are all in c:\yandy\utils, I think
it is. And the T.Add. should give you the basic info you need,
starting with the contents and purpose of the various font file
formats you need. The new alphabet-soup you'll be looking for includes
things like .afm, .pfb, .pfm, and once they're available, generating
the matching .tfm. That last one's the thing to keep an eye out for --
your .tfm files have to be in the same encoding as your other stuff,
default usually being texnansi ...

Oh my ... so much reading to make you go to sleep ;-))

Ch.