Times SC fonts

[Mimi Burbank]

On Jan07 09:51PM, ponyexpress at primemail.com wrote:
> I am trying to use the IEEE style for a paper but am getting fonts
> errors,
> tirsc(0) and tirsc(12).  Can anyone suggest how I can get rid of these
> errors or how and where I can obtain the needed fonts?

basically it is because there are no fonts by these names with
your computer system...  You can only able to get Times SC and Times
SC-bold to work with Y&YTeX, but not the italic version of either.

so.... I'm going to cut and paste from a few old  "techsupport"
messages...


mimi
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Wed, 12 Nov 2003 --
I can contribute the following. I just went through the process of
getting a Times SC font, purchased from Adobe, to work with Y&YTeX.
I documented my every move -- I can't recall what I do from week to
week, so I need this kind of verbosity hanging around ... occasionally
it even helps others ;-)

I'll append to the end of this message. Note that all references to
ATM are because I'm on an NT machine and so need to install fonts via
it. For you, on XP, you just install via the Control Panel, as per
usual instructions. Just keep in mind that all you're installing are
the .pfb files. The .pfm files are automatically generated.

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I'd commented that to date, I'm only able to get Times SC and Times
SC-bold to work with Y&YTeX, but not the italic version of either.

I then thought I'd check on things and used ATM to print sample sheets
of all four fonts.

Well, guess what!? There actually are no such italic beasts! While the
top line of the sample sheet clearly prints `Times SC' for all four
fonts, the font metric names are: tirsc and tibsc, and tiio and
tibio. No `sc' in those last two. What they do contain is just the
italic Times, with OlsStyle figures. No smallcaps at all.

I called a tech support person at Agfa Monotype and fax'd my four ATM
sample sheets.  He's now come back to me with the info that this is
exactly what the 4 files are: two with smallcaps (regular and bold);
and two with just Times OldStyle Figures (italic, bold-italic).

<snip>
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12 November 2003 23:10

Working Environment:
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   Laptop with NT4, Y&YTeX 2.2(.8), ATM Lite

Procedures:
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1. After checking the Monotype website for various Times smallcaps
   fonts, I called 1-800-424-8973 and acquired Times SC/OSF. The
   material came later that day, via e-mail, including a .doc
   instruction file and a .zip file. Payment via credit card.

2. Printed up the .doc file:

   NOTE: the screen shot for ATM (last page) is incorrect, showing a
   \pfm subfolder, whereas in reality, you see a \Fonts subfolder. Not
   only is the name wrong -- but you don't get pfm files separately --
   ATM generates them and installs them in the correct location
   automatically. So a bit of a visual red herring. I've mentioned it
   to them ... but who knows if they'll actually change anything.

3. Using WinZip, I unzipped the .zip file, which then created that
   \Fonts subfolder. In my case, I got 4 files (Tibio, Tibsc, Tiio,
   Tirsc) in .inf, .pfb, and .afm formats. The Y&YTeX Technical
   Addendum describes these and other font file formats on pp.4-5:

      PFB and [ATM-generated] PFM files are required for viewing in
      DVIWindo, and both are required for printing from DVIPSONE
      using a Windows Postscript driver. DVIPSONE, on the other
      hand, requires only the PFB files. (p.5)

4. Then I had to stop -- you have to have administrative privileges in
   order to install the fonts. Now, most people probably don't set up
   their laptops to have individual log-ins and accounts ... but we
   do. So I had to puzzle over why things weren't working until I
   finally figured this one out and logged in as administrator. Just a
   reminder, to those who have hyper-security set-ups ;-) Now back to
   installation ...

5. Launch ATM and navigate (via the right-hand window) to the folder
   with the new font files.

6. Highlight all the red-a files. Make sure the box `Add without
   copying files' is NOT checked off. Click on `Add' and watch them
   all get installed. The `Settings' tab in ATM indicates where the
   .pfb and .pfm files are being stored.

7. Installation is now complete for the machine. Now to get the .tfm
   files that TeX needs.

8. In DVIWindo, go to Fonts > Write TFM, which pops up a `Font'
   dialogue box. Even though I'm installing 4 fonts, the `Write All
   TFMs...' is not a good choice, as it locates all kinds of other
   fonts -- apparently wanting to really go after every single font on
   my machine. I got out of that one, and opted for doing `Write TFM'
   four times.

9. The dialogue box has 3 panels: Font, Font Style, Size. Highlight
   the entry in the `Font' panel, then highlight one of the 4 styles
   (regular, italic, bold, bold-italic), ensure that your encoding
   (I'm just sticking with default `texnansi') is properly selected,
   and click on `OK'. I also just left the `FileName (default)' box as
   was (checked off).

10. A new dialogue box, `TIRSC___', pops up, with a white `X' in a red
    circle, accompanied by that lovely MS blamming sound ;-). The box
    contains all kinds of delightful information about the font just
    worked on: Face Name, Font Name, AFM file location, TFM file
    location, and the encoding. Hit `OK' and it's done, ready for
    use. And, as I said, I then did it three more times.

11. For each font style, I also got the log file window that one
    usually gets when processing a TeX file, but this one's called
   `ATM to TFM', and shows all the nitty gritty details of the
    conversion, including info which may or may not be hugely
    important or significant ... or just excesively detailed -- as in
    TeX telling you that a line is 3.23947pts too wide ;-)

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