lucida and miktex

[Christina Thiele]

Andreas Loeffler writes:
>
> hi, I am using lucida fonts and I do want to use them with miktex, not
> yandy. I cannot install the fonts, my YAP always says
>
> Making PK font:
> C:\Programme\miktex\miktex\bin\makepk.exe --verbose lbr 618 600 1+18/600 ljfour
> name: lbr, dpi=618, bdpi=600, mag=1+18/600, mode=ljfour
> makemf --verbose lbr
> Cannot find lbcodes source file.
> ttf2pk -q -n lbr 618
> hbf2gf -q -p lbr 618
> makepk: don't know how to make lbr.pk!
>
> Any idea what is wrong with my installation? Best, Andreas Löffler
>
>

Um ... you've read the MikTeX documentation on installing new fonts?
;-)

I've just searched through old techsupport mail for the fonts + MikTeX
topic and found the following two bits. Perhaps this will give you
some clues ... and maybe there's additional or newer information other
techsupport members can add.

Ch.

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Message #1:
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To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject: Re: mathtime in MikTeX
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:05:34 -0400.
             <OFFF642053.42392E02-ON85256D9E.0052ADAE at lvs.dupont.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:56:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>
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sorry, folks; i'm a bit unreliable just now.  started this on 11th...

Geoffrey Nunes writes:

> Ok, so this is probably a forbidden subject, but I've bought and paid for
> the Mathtime 1.1 fonts, and would like to be able to use them in my
> favorite TeX platform.  If anyone has gotten these to work properly under
> MikTeX (in either TeX or LaTeX or both) I would love to know how.

i've done that, experimentally.  (i don't regularly use miktex myself,
but the installation seemed to work.)

1. i created a mathtime.map: see

   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/tex/mathtime.map

   (someone told me there was an "official" one on ctan somewhere, but
   in my usual chaotic way i've lost the reference.)

2. install that in \localtexmf\dvips\yandy (create the directory if
   necessary)

3. the distribution includes .pfb, .tfm and .vf file(s) (actually only
   one current .vf) [or should include: they were on my cd, the .vf
   confusingly in a tfm directory]

   install these in

   \localtexmf\fonts\type1\yandy\mathtime
   \localtexmf\fonts\tfm\yandy\mathtime
   \localtexmf\fonts\vf\yandy\mathtime

   creating the required directories as necessary

4. it says here:

   On a Mik\TeX{} system earlier than version~2.2, the ``Refresh
   filename database'' operation, which you performed after installing
   the map file, also updates the system's ``postscript resources
   database''.

   On a Mik\TeX{} system, version~2.2 or later, update
   \File|updmap.cfg| which is described in Mik\TeX{} online
   documentation http://www.miktex.org/2.2/mkfntmap.html
   Then execute the MkFntMap utility, and the job is done.

you can probably guess that i've not done this from memory.  in
particular, i've not tried it on a <2.2 system, since i don't have one
any more -- someone else told me that what's listed above is how to go
about it -- confirmation that it works would be welcome...

robin

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Message #2:
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To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject: Re: bad metric
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:47:18 -0400.
             <200309251747.h8PHlI627779 at rideau.YP.nobel>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:35:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>
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christina thiele writes:

> Edgar G. Goodaire writes:
>
> > I have recently switched to MiKTeX from EmTeX.  I have your lucida fonts,
> > but now get an error message concerning hlcrima.tfm - bad metric - and no
> > output.  Everything worked with EmTeX.  Can you figure out what is going
> > wrong?  My .aux file is below. [snipped]
>
> I believe that TFM files are specifically written for a given
> encoding. So that if you were using one encoding under MikTeX and
> another under EmTeX, you'd have to re-write -- or redirect via paths
> -- to the correct tfms. Is this a possibility?

no; good tfm files are always readable.  if they are designed for the
wrong encoding for the job in hand, they may not be terribly useful,
but that's not what's happening here.

> What I definitely don't know is whether tfm files written for use with
> one TeX implementation are directly usable in another.

supposedly, yes.  i've never encountered an instance where they
weren't: the design is pretty careful to avoid any problem.

edgar:
- is this the only problem you're having, or are other lucida fonts
  problematic?
- how did you change over?  tetex (what's on my machine at the moment)
  provides tfm files out of the box -- so in principle you may not
  have needed to copy the tfm files into the new system.

robin

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