Three Crazy Fonts

[Angela Partain]

VICTORY!!!!!  I cannot tell you all how relieved I am!  Bless your hearts,
every one of you, 'cause you're all angels, not to mention geniuses (hope I
spelled that correctly).

I have triangleqs!
I have mathcals!
I have mathbbs!

Here is what I did, picking and choosing advice from everyone:

1. Went to the mirror site of CTAN and chose an ftp site in my area.

2.  Then I found the zip files or font files I needed (the pfm's and pfb's)
and copied them to my c:\windows\fonts-mine folder.  (I didn't worry about
tfms, since they're in the yandy directory.)

3.  I went into the Control Panel and INSTALLED the fonts, rather than
clicking-and-dragging.  This made all the difference, I believe.  I checked
and the fonts were actually showing up in c:\windows\fonts this time.  So
far, so good....

4. Ran latex2e in Dviwindo on $\triangleq\mathcal{A}\mathbb{A}$  and .......
VOILA     <high fives all around>

Bless you all---Mimi, Robin, Christina, Troels, and Jochen---there's no way
I could have figured this out on my own.  Ok, I'm off to catch up on some
sleep now.
Cheers to all!
Angela




----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Fairbairns" <Robin.Fairbairns at CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: <YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Three Crazy Fonts


> > Christina said:
> > > I've search my laptop (NT) for all cases of msbm*.* and find the
> > > following:
> > >
> > >     all PFBs are in c:\psfonts
> > >     all PFMs are in c:\psfonts\pfm
> > >     all TFMs are in c:\yandy\fonts\tfm\nontext
> >
> > Ok, I went to ctan and downloaded the pfm, pfb, and tfm versions of all
> > three fonts: msbm10, cmsy10, and msam10.
> > I put each one in the proper file as listed above, then ran latex2e on
> > $\triangleq\mathbb{R}\mathcal{R}$.
>
> as christina explained in her later mail, that doesn't "do it" for a
> winxp installation.
>
> > No go.  It still complained of the missing fonts!
>
> it would do.
>
> > Soooo....<after moping around a bit>...I made a c:\windows\fonts-mine
folder
> > and put this line in my dviwindo.ini file:
> >  "PSFONTS=C:\WINDOWS\fonts;C:\windows\fonts-mine"
> > then ran latex on the above line again.
> >
> > No go. Fonts still missing!
>
> aiui, dviwindo needs the fonts installed in the os font installer.
> dvipsone probably doesn't, but that's no help here.
>
> > Soooo....<still moping but determined not to give up> ...  I tried
dragging
> > all the above (pfm,pfb and tfms of all three fonts) into my
c:\windows\fonts
> > folder.  Lo and behold, I got this error message:
> >
> > Unable to install the font.  File "...msbm10.tfm is either invalid or
> > damaged.
>
> .tfm is a _tex_ font metric, about which windows knows nothing.  the tfm
> files don't need installing, just need to be put "where tex can find
> them".
>
> > I tried each one individually and got the same message on each.  Argh,
I'm
> > at my wits end! Almost!
>
> each what?
>
> i don't trust this d r a g and drop stuff; i install fonts through
> start->control panel->fonts; then file->install new font, and browse to
> the directory where the pfb and pfm files are.  windows will now decide
> which of the things in that directory it's interested in; select them
> all (control-a, or click button) and press install.
>
> > Here is how I downloaded the fonts from CTAN.  Please let me know if I'm
> > doing this wrong.
> >
> > 1.  I searched, say, msbm10.tfm
> > 2.  I clicked on the latest version that came up
> > 3.  I shift-clicked on the ftp link and it gave me a box to choose
"open" or
> > "save"
> > 4. I saved to c:\windows\fonts-mine
> > 5. Now I'd like to go back and try saving it to c:\windows\fonts,
> > or try to download the Bluesky fonts, but every time I click on a font I
get
> > a "This page cannot be displayed" message.  Is there a limit to the
number
> > of times you can download something?  I am unable to download any fonts
from
> > ctan at this time.
> > I restarted my computer and re-connected my Internet cable box, thinking
> > that could be the problem, but no go.
>
> if the type 1 fonts you have won't install, the ctan addresses you need
> are:
>
> fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/cmps-pc.zip for the cm fonts
> fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1/amsps-pc.zip  for the msam/msbm fonts
>
> what you should be interested in, in the zip files, are the .pfb and the
> .pfm files (the latter in subdirectory pfmfiles.  i'ld expand the .zip
> and install from the expanded directory.
>
> you needn't worry about the .tfm files.  you _must_ have those or you
> wouldn't be able to run latex.
>
> robin
>
>