Response from Berthold Horn, Re: Configuring Y & Y for WindowsXP

[Blenda Horn]

Hi Murray,

I sent your email to Berthold, I hope he responds soon.

Blenda.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
Reply-To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Date:  Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:53:01 -0500

>Does the warning against ATM 4.0 with Windows XP also apply to ATM
>Deluxe 4.1 with Windows XP?
>
>I have the latter and installed and run Y&Y TeX without difficulty but
>for one small problem.  There was ONE font -- at this point it would
>take me some digging to discover which one -- that had to be modified so
>as to have a different (internal) name.  AS I recall, that was because
>the ATM database didn't allow quite long enough names and hence
>confounded two different fonts.
>
>Blenda Horn wrote:
>
>  > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: "Berthold K.P. Horn" Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:53:43 -0500
>>
>> At 2004-01-27  08:55, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>>.There appear to be two types of problems. First, configuring a new
>>>Y & Y system under XP.
>>
>>
>> Windows XP is in fact the preferred windows system to use.
>> The vast majority of users install in XP without any problems.
>> The few problems we have seen come from not paying attention
>> to the instructions that indicate *not* to install ATM 4.0 in XP.
>> Installing a version of ATM intended for Windows NT in XP
>> messes up font handling in a serious way and is hard to undo.
>> This is why there are several places where the user is warned
>> against this.
>
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