Script fonts? (eusm8 and 9)

[LMS journals]

Christina saved my bacon for some of the AMS fonts with the following
message:

> The MSAM/MSBM fonts are available either in public or commercial
> forms: from Y&Y, they're included in the `AMS' folder that
> you have on your CD, provided you bought them.
>
> If you didn't buy the AMS fonts, then you have some other
> choices: either use a workaround from the amsfonts package,
> or acquire public versions of the missing sizes ... but you
> should check that their quality matches that of your
> Y&Y-purchased fonts. You didn't mention in your initial post
> where you'd acquired the MSAM/MSBM files from ... If the
> Bakoma set, see below for comments.
>
>
> 1. The amsfonts package has an option to cope with the absence of
>    several sizes: the amsfonts.dtx file mentions the psamsfonts
>    option. This option assumes the presence of only msam<5,7,10> (and
>    similarly for msbm and the regular and bold euler fonts*).
>    However, it may give different line and page breaks if it's
>    invoked after something has been run with all sizes of the fonts
>    rather than just the 5, 7, and 10pt versions scaled as needed. That
>    is, if it's used, it should be used from the very beginning.
>
>    *Page 254 of the revised chap8 to _The Companion_, near the end of
>     section 8.6.6, describes the amsfonts package (as well as
>     amssymb, which loads amsfonts). It says that it:
>
>       ... defines the \mathfrak and \mathbb commands and sets up the
>       fonts msam (extra math symbols A) and msbm (extra math symbols
>       B), eufm (Euler Fraktur), extra sizes of cmmib (bold math italic
>       and bold lowercase Greek), and cmbsy (bold math symbols and bold
>       script), for use in mathematics.
>
>    All these packages recognise the [psamsfonts] option, which will
>    use the Y&Y/Blue Sky Research version of the AMSFonts collection
>    (which is freely available on CTAN).
>
>
> 2. You can acquire the public BlueSky fonts (Type 1) but they don't
>    contain several of the ms* font sizes -- 6, 8 and 9pt. The
>    [psamsfonts] workaround can deal with that. You can get the fonts
>    from CTAN but you should take the whole .zip file and then pull out
>    the relevant files:
>
>       fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1/amsps-pc.zip
>
>    The fonts are of course also available directly from the AMS
>    website -- see here for details:
>
>       http://www.ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html
>
>
> 3. There is another Type 1 collection that includes the ms* fonts at
>    all sizes -- Bakoma -- but there are some issues to consider:
>       - there are restrictions on using it commercially (this
>         includes publication of journals by scientific societies)
>       - the quality isn't as good as the BlueSky/Y&Y versions
>
>    The general feeling seems to be that, if it's the case that your
>    MSAM/MSBM font files came from the bakoma collection, you'd be
>    better off deleting them before you proceed with adding the other
>    versions.

All the best

Sue

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Techsupport-owner at yandy.com
> [mailto:Techsupport-owner at yandy.com] On Behalf Of David Ireland
> Sent: 16 January 2004 15:35
> To: Techsupport at yandy.com
> Subject: Script fonts? (eusm8 and 9)
>
>
> First, thanks to Robin for the suggestion to try framed.sty
> (for fboxes split across two pages). Will try that tonight.
>
> Second, I'm getting font errors when I try and use mathcal
> 'script' letters in sub/superscripts and in footnotes (though
> it works fine in body text). The errors read
>
> Can't find font eusm8(24) (Windows offers Ariel)
> and
> Can't find font eusm9(47) (Windows offers 'Small Fonts')
>
> This seems odd as I have tfm files for eusm5, thru eusm10.
> Can anyone suggest a solution?  I did try following the
> instructions for installing and using 'mathinst' but this
> only seems to be useful for unix systems.  I'm on a Windows XP PC.
>
> Thank you
>
> David Ireland
>
>
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