Buy MathTime and LB for MikTeX?

[Dirk P. Kroese]

Dear Robin,

Thanks very much for your message. I had a similar response yesterday, so
this is probably  the  way to go. I will try it out.

Cheers,

Dirk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Fairbairns" <Robin.Fairbairns at CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: <YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: Buy MathTime and LB for MikTeX?


> Dirk Kroese <kroese at MATHS.UQ.EDU.AU> wrote:
>
> i use lucida bright on my unix machine.
>
> i don't ordinarily reckon to use ly1 encoding (except on y&ytex), but i
> put the disc into my widnoze machine (100% up-to-date miktex) and copied
> the .pfb and .pfm[*] files for lucida into a folder
> localtexmf\fonts\type1\yandy\lucida
>
> i then told miktex to update maps and tried a jiffy document using ly1
> encoding.  it all worked.
>
> since i had all packages installed on my miktex system, to start with, i
> guess i would have needed to install lucida and ly1 packages before i
> started.
>
> another user recently had problems with mathtime.  i don't see why, but
> if you do experience troubles, there are people here who can make it
> work, so do ask here rather than getting fed up with the fonts!
>
> robin
>
> [*] installing the .pfm files is nice, since you can double-click them
> in exploder and the font viewer will pop up with a little sample.
> they're actually needed if you want to install the files for use by
> widnoze.
>