Trouble after installing YandY
Christina Thiele
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Thu Jul 8 15:07:05 CEST 2004
Mohamad Hindawi writes:
>
> I installed YandY this morning and now I have a lot of trouble processing
> tex files. The main problem is, there are files which seem to be missing
> or that latex can not find them. almost all the packages which I want to
> use, in addition to amsclasses, etc.
>
> I am not sure if I missed something when I installed the system which made
> life so hard like this.
>
> The system has a well known bug, when it trys to install stuff from CTAN
> folder, so I skipped that part.
>
> Now I do not know which folder I am suppose to copy these files to, I
> tried c:\yandy\tex\latex\contrib. But that does not seems to help.
>
> Could you please help.
>
I'm going to assume you're getting messages about missing packages --
it's always more helpful to include the .log file of the most recent
defective processing run, since the info contained in the .log file
can be awfully handy ... once you figure out how to read the darn
things!
I'm also going to assume you're using the most recent Y&YTeX, which is
version 2.2.8. If you look in the .ini file (usually stored in
c:/windows, I believe -- it's NOT in the c:\yandy tree), the opening
lines will tell you which version of 2.2.* you have.
Anyways, I'm going to append one of my three ;-) `bug fix' files,
which may address (some of) the problems you're encountering.
Now, once you've done this, it's _possible_ you'll also run into
bitter complaints about NFSS. If so, I have another file for that, but
it's really just a collection of e-mail messages and not very nicely
laid out in point form ;-(
I'm pretty sure that at least one person, if not two, have actually
waded through the messy NFSS messages, and posted a more succinct
summary. These would be available through the yandytex list archives
-- truly one of the great advantages to having a proper LISTSERV list!
But for now, see if the following set of notes helps get your system
un-stuck enough for you to process files again.
Ch.
=====
==== installation bugs with 2.2.8
PLEASE NOTE: I am no longer convinced that the boites.sty problem is
as benign as first noted in this list. I _think_ that it aborts the
installation process and thus some of the subsequent problems
arise. But until and unless someone installs Y&YTeX WITHOUT the CTAN
portion of the installation, I can't be absolutely certain of that.
One idea that was proposed is to just not proceed with the CTAN
portion of the installation (and do it manually, later, if needed),
but as that activity usually happens before anyone signs up for this
list ;-)) it's kind of moot.
Anyways, if anyone has clarifications or improvements or additions to
make to this list, I'd really appreciate seeing them posted here.
Thanks.
Ch.
Bugs in current Y&YTeX install CD (CT experiences):
=================================
1. During the final installation segment (to add additional packages
from CTAN), an error message box pops up, complaining that the
boites package cannot be found. This is because the package no
longer exists on CTAN but the installation script for writing
Y&YTeX CDs hasn't been updated and thus still wants to copy the
file off the CD. A benign message -- just hit <return> and
installation will finish.
2. DVIWindo's TeX menu is missing a `LaTeX' entry. To remedy, two
edits (using an ASCII editor) must be made to the dviwindo.ini
file, which resides in either c:\winnt or in c:\windows -- make
sure to have your machine set up to display all (hidden) files and
their extensions in order to locate the file.
a. In the [Environment] section, add the following line:
LATEX=c:\yandy\texinput;c:\yandy\tex\latex\\;c:\yandy\tex\base\\
This is usually just above the BIBINPUT lines. This sets the
path for LaTeX to find all its input files.
b. In the [Applications] section, add the following line:
LaTeX|F8=C:\YANDY\YANDYTEX\TEX.BAT +latex @.tex
^^
This adds an entry in the TeX menu that you can pull down to
process a LaTeX file. Make sure there is no duplication of
F-key assignments ;-)
c. If you want to also have access to old LaTeX 2.09, then add
these two lines, to the two respective sections of the .ini
file:
i. LPLAIN=c:\yandy\texinput;c:\yandy\tex\base\\;c:\yandy\tex\latex209\\
ii. LaTeX 2.09|F7=C:\YANDY\YANDYTEX\TEX.BAT +lplain @.tex
^^
3. There are multiple locations for two different versions of the
docstrip files:
a. Docstrip.dtx ..\tex\latex\base 8/7/00
b. Docstrip.ins ..\tex\latex\base 8/30/00
c. docstrip.dtx ..\tex\latex\unpacked 8/7/00
d. docstrip.ins ..\tex\latex\unpacked 8/30/00
e. docstrip.tex ..\tex\latex\unpacked 9/5/00
f. docstrip.tex ..\texinput 1/8/98
g. docstrip.tex ..\yandytex\tex\texinput 1/8/98
Delete all 1998 versions before processing any .ins files that
require the docstrip package.
[Robin, that the .ins and .dtx files don't have the same day in AUG
2000 is not important ... is it?]
4. The /graphics subfolder is incomplete. Locate:
d:\CTAN\LaTeX\required\graphics
and copy graphics.ins into
c:\yandy\tex\latex\required\graphics
Now process this file (`latex graphics.ins') watch it generate all
the necessary files for graphics-related work.
5. In the same \graphics folder, again using an ASCII editor, create
two config. files:
a. graphics.cfg
b. color.cfg
The contents of both should be the following single line:
\ExecuteOption{dvipsone}
As mentioned, these two files should be installed in
c:\yandy\tex\latex\required\graphics
6. There are some left-over files from the BibTeX upgrade:
a. bibtex.exe (172kb) is duplicated in c:\yandy\utils -- delete,
once you've confirmed that it is also in the proper location of
c:\yandy\bibtex
b. if you need Acm.bst, you'll find it in texinput\bstinput; for
ease of use, please move to bibtex\bst. The \bibtex\bstinput and
bibtex\bibinput contents are otherwise identical to the old
folders which may still be present in c:\yandy\texinput.
===== end of bug reports/fixes
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Oh, the 'famous' `corrupted NFSS' message ;-((
I'm afraid I can only give you copies of mail which discuss this
problem and its solution -- I'm kind of pressed for time right
now. But the problem has come up, and has been solved.
Please read the appended large collection of messages (4 in all but my
goodness, when I reply, I don't do it economically, I'm afraid!).
Anyways, there are bits and pieces throughout the messages which
should get you unstuck.
What I'd really really like is if someone -- or perhaps even you ;-)
-- could weed through all the verbiage and perhaps come up with a
step-by-step instruction set on how to get things straightened out.
I've recently put out a call for such collating/collapsing of
techsupport messages, to come up with new FAQs.
If you're so inclined, please post here -- we're got a great bunch of
people on techsupport who can probably test out your steps and
confirm/adjust where necessary.
I'm going to leave your message intact, here, and then at the end of
it, I'll add the other four.
As for a techsupport archive of mail ... unfortunately, no. We don't
have it set up that way. At least, not yet. We're in touch with
someone about possibly getting a proper LISTSERV list going, and
getting all past mail messages sorted into something searchable.
But for now, this is the best I can do. Sorry ...
Ch.
======== Here's Jochen's message for help:
Jochen Autschbach writes:
>
>
> Hi there
>
> I hope someone out there knows how to fix these problems:
>
> I just installed YandY's MathTime "Complete" Tex system on my Windows XP
> system for the first time. I did _not_ install ATM.
>
> It doesn't seem to work. There are a number of (probably related)
> problems. When I try to view the MathTime example
> c:\yandy\texinput\hello_MT.dvi with DVIWindo I get an error box titled
> "WINANAL" saying "Can't get TeX metrics at byte 452".
>
> I copied the LateX file "hello_MT.tex" to "test.tex", loaded it into
> WinEdt and tried to generate the DVI. The output is listed at the end of
> this email.
>
> If I try to LaTeX any of my own files, or even a small test LaTeX file
> with just one word (no math), DVIWindo complains about missing fonts. This
> seems to be the same problem as was address earlier today by Roger Cooke.
>
> Presumably something went wrong with the installation. But what?
>
> Is there an archive of this mailing list available somewhere?
>
> Best regards,
> Jochen
>
> C:\yandy\TEXINPUT
> C:\yandy\yandytex\tex.bat +latex "test.tex"
> Y&Y TeX 2.2.4 2001 Sep 14 07:07:38 SN 5046
> Copyright (C) 1993--2001 Y&Y, Inc. http://www.YandY.com
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Y&Y TeX 2.2.4)
> (test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
> (c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard LaTeX document class
> (c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/size10.clo))
> (c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/fontenc.sty
> (c:/yandy/tex/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/ly1/ly1enc.def)
>
> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `LY1/ptm/m/n' undefined
> (Font) using `LY1/ptm/m/n' instead on input line 96.
>
> ! Corrupted NFSS tables.
> wrong at fontshape ...message {Corrupted NFSS tables}
> error at fontshape else let
> f...
>
> c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/fontenc.sty(96) : ...t
>
> ?
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Dr. Jochen Autschbach
>
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Chemistry
> University at Buffalo
> State University of New York
> 312 Natural Sciences Complex
> Buffalo, NY 14260-3000
>
> EMail : jochena at buffalo.edu
> Phone : (+01)-716-645-6800 ext. 2086
> FAX : (+01)-716-645-6963
> WWW : http://www.chem.buffalo.edu/Autschbach
> http://www.nsm.buffalo.edu/~jochena
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
======== Here are the 4 messages about `corrupted NFSS...':
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Subject: Re: cmr and mt problems under Win2k
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Dan Erwin writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I took delivery on a full TeX with Mathtime system and installed it
> under Windows 2000 Professional. (CD volume label YandY_MTX, serial
> number 5010, invoice number 3808). This order was several months ago --
> I stopped trying to use it after sending essentially this email to
> support at yandy.com and getting no reply. Now I'm trying again.
Glad you tried again. The address `support at yandy.com' has pretty much
been phased out even though the documentation still carries it in
various places. The outside cover of your manuals should have a
sticker with the new address, though.
Now, one thing that's really different in `techsupport' for Y&Y
products is that where `support at yandy.com' used to go to just one
in-house person (so it was ok to include serial and invoice numbers
then), mail sent to `techsupport at yandy.com' goes to a mailing list of
subscribed users -- not in-house at all. So we'll just all ignore that
info that you sent out ;-)
There's a small core of support people like myself you try to answer
questions, but we only know so much. The rest of the users out here
have tons of experience in a lot of areas where we often don't go
... like generating pdf files, or inserting fantastic numbers of
graphic files, or whatever. So it's a collective help group you've got
here on-line.
Now, this very problem you describe came up in early June with someone
on this list, and I've just gone through the mail again to see what
the causes were. The error messages were so familiar ...
> First, the installation scripts are not quite in sync with what's on the
> CD, so if you try to have the Latex installer copy all the packages to
> the hard drive, it aborts because it tries to copy
> ctan\latex\contrib\other\boites\boites.sty, which is not on the CD.
Yes, we've encountered this one before. The boites package is
available on CTAN, so if you need it, you can find it there. The
package name apparently is not in the installation/CD-writing script
that's used (for whatever reason, it's missing) and so the
installation spits out that error message during the CTAN portion of
the installation routine we go through.
Oh, by the way, when I encountered this, and got to the end of my
installation, I found that there was no `LaTeX' entry in my DVIWindo
TeX menu (you know, the pull-down menu that also lists which function
keys will do what). Anyways, check that it has a `LaTeX' entry,
usually tied to the F8 key. If yes, then that niggle isn't yours ;-)
If not, let us know and we'll send you the necessary info to fix it.
> Second, I find that the plain old cmr files are not installed, and in
> fact don't appear anywhere on the installation CD. So I can latex
> "hello_cm.tex" but cannot preview it.
Yes, well ... the CM fonts have to be explicitly specified and
purchased. Is it possible you didn't request them? If you have them
from a previous Y&YTeX version, then locate your old CD, and install
AS PER INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NEW VERSION (I emphasise, because
installation instructions are quite different between Win95/98/NT and
Win2000/XP.
> Third, and most important (since it is really MT that I want), I cannot
> latex "hello_mt.tex" because of corruption errors in NFSS (TeX output
> appears below).
Yes, the error message you describe is known. Here's what needs to be
done. First, plop that CD back into your machine and have Explorer
ready to look at both its contents and those in c:\yandy.
> So for the moment I am dead in the water and would appreciate any
> suggestions you might have. If the problems will be fixed with a current
> install CD, you might drop one in the mail to me -- I can be trusted to
> return the old one should you wish it.
The fixes take less time than the mail ;-) So here goes. This is taken
from mail from early June on what the other user did. I've going to
use double >>, to distinguish his text from yours:
>> Could not find the mathtime.sty or times.sty, so went to the CD
>> ROM:\MATHPLUS\PSNFSS directory, copied everything to my
>> C:\YANDY\TEX\LATEX directory and ran Latex on mathtime.ins. This
>> created additional files, but not a times.sty, which appeared to be
>> the only missing file according to latax's complaints. This, I found
>> in the yyadd.zip file in the demo directory of the CD-ROM (search
>> reported it was in the PSNFSS directory, but this did not exist on the
>> ROM and crashed explorer when I tried to copy the found file -
>> strange). Anyway, with these files in place the file compiles and can
>> be viewed by dviwindo. The remaining odd part is the numerous warning
>> messages in the log file, as sample of which is:
>>
>> (c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/fontenc.sty
>> Package: fontenc 2000/08/30 v1.91 Standard LaTeX package
>> (C:/YANDY/TEX/LATEX/ly1enc.def
>> File: ly1enc.def 1997/03/21 v0.3 Y\&Y's texnansi encoding (DPC))
>> LaTeX Font Info: Try loading font information for LY1+ptm on
>> input line 96.
>> (C:/YANDY/TEX/LATEX/ly1ptm.fd
>> File: ly1ptm.fd 1997/01/26 LY1/ptm (Times Roman) with Adobe file
>> names. (DPC) )) (C:/YANDY/TEX/LATEX/mathtime.sty
>> Package: mathtime 1997/10/10 v1.0e mathtime font support (FMi/DPC)
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OT1' has changed to `LY1' for symbol font
>> (Font) `operators' in the math version `normal' on input line 73.
>> LaTeX Font Info: Overwriting symbol font `operators' in version
>> `normal' (Font) OT1/cmr/m/n --> LY1/ptm/m/n on
>> input line 73.
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `MY1' for symbol
>> font (Font) `letters' in the math version `normal' on
>> input line 74.
and so on and so forth.
Note that the above are ONLY warning messages -- that is,
informational. They do not stop processing, which is what error
messages do. The best reference I've found on understanding error and
warning messages is Kopka and Daly's _A Guide to LaTeX2e_ (2nd
ed). However, there's now a 3rd edition (so it may not even have that
`2e' appended to `LaTeX' anymore) which obviously is a newer version
to acquired. Anywys, it's got a section on font error messages and
another on font warnings. I think the upshot is that OT1 get converted
to LY1, which is the Y&Y encoding. But the font-savvy on this list
will know much better -- and corrections to anything idiotic I say
will come swiftly ;-) So we'll both learn ...
Now, back to locating potentially missing materials. Here's more on
the fonts, again the text with wedges ( >> ) in front are the user, and
my replies at that time are prefixed with ++ signs:
>> Now for font locations. I did a search for mtex and found the
>> following:
>> mtex.pfb and mtex.pfm both in c:\WINNT\Fonts
>> mtex.tfm in c:\yandy\fonts\nontext\tfm-mt
>> the c:\winnt\fonts directory has all of the .pfm fonts that are on
>> the installation disk, but I noticed it does not have any of the
>> .pfb files that are on the installation disk. However, it sounds
>> like these are not needed.
++ Oh, I do believe they _are_ needed. On p.4 of the Technical Addendum
++ (the bigger manual), I find this:
++
++ On the Windows Platform, a Type 1 font consists of two files:
++
++ PFB ...
++
++ PFM ...
++
++ So now that we know you need 'em, maybe the problem is that they're in
++ a place dviwindo.ini doesn't know about. It's Sunday morning ... I'm
++ supposed to be doing family stuff not this. So this is about all I cal
++ do right now. But have a read through some of this fonts stuff and
++ check that your .pfbs are in a place that dvipsone can find them.
++
++ But it does sound like we're making progress, overall ... a bit, no?
++ Perhaps? ;-))
>> Is the "corrupted NFSS tables." message in the YANDYTEX DOS box
>> during texing significant? There was an initial problem with my
>> CD-ROM CTAN installation, but I was sent a new CD-ROM with this
>> fixed. This may be unrelated but could be a piece of the puzzle.
++ Maybe. I'd like to defer this part of your query to Robin, as he's
++ more familiar with nfss things than I.
>> Thanks again.
++ And thank you for your patience!
=====
If there are any updates or further information anyone has to pass on
to Dan, I'm sure he'd really appreciate it.
Ch.
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Looks what happens when you're pressed ;-( You forget to append stuff.
Anyways, here's the 2 Sept reply I was trying to pass on.
Ch.
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[...]
From: Christina Thiele <cthiele at ccs.carleton.ca>
[...]
Subject: Re: cmr and mt problems under Win2k
To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:17:38 -0400 (EDT)
[...]
Dan Erwin writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I took delivery on a full TeX with Mathtime system and installed it
> under Windows 2000 Professional. (CD volume label YandY_MTX, serial
> number 5010, invoice number 3808). This order was several months ago --
> I stopped trying to use it after sending essentially this email to
> support at yandy.com and getting no reply. Now I'm trying again.
Glad you tried again. The address `support at yandy.com' has pretty much
been phased out even though the documentation still carries it in
various places. The outside cover of your manuals should have a
sticker with the new address, though.
Now, one thing that's really different in `techsupport' for Y&Y
products is that where `support at yandy.com' used to go to just one
in-house person (so it was ok to include serial and invoice numbers
then), mail sent to `techsupport at yandy.com' goes to a mailing list of
subscribed users -- not in-house at all. So we'll just all ignore that
info that you sent out ;-)
There's a small core of support people like myself you try to answer
questions, but we only know so much. The rest of the users out here
have tons of experience in a lot of areas where we often don't go
... like generating pdf files, or inserting fantastic numbers of
graphic files, or whatever. So it's a collective help group you've got
here on-line.
Now, this very problem you describe came up in early June with someone
on this list, and I've just gone through the mail again to see what
the causes were. The error messages were so familiar ...
> First, the installation scripts are not quite in sync with what's on the
> CD, so if you try to have the Latex installer copy all the packages to
> the hard drive, it aborts because it tries to copy
> ctan\latex\contrib\other\boites\boites.sty, which is not on the CD.
Yes, we've encountered this one before. The boites package is
available on CTAN, so if you need it, you can find it there. The
package name apparently is not in the installation/CD-writing script
that's used (for whatever reason, it's missing) and so the
installation spits out that error message during the CTAN portion of
the installation routine we go through.
Oh, by the way, when I encountered this, and got to the end of my
installation, I found that there was no `LaTeX' entry in my DVIWindo
TeX menu (you know, the pull-down menu that also lists which function
keys will do what). Anyways, check that it has a `LaTeX' entry,
usually tied to the F8 key. If yes, then that niggle isn't yours ;-)
If not, let us know and we'll send you the necessary info to fix it.
> Second, I find that the plain old cmr files are not installed, and in
> fact don't appear anywhere on the installation CD. So I can latex
> "hello_cm.tex" but cannot preview it.
Yes, well ... the CM fonts have to be explicitly specified and
purchased. Is it possible you didn't request them? If you have them
from a previous Y&YTeX version, then locate your old CD, and install
AS PER INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NEW VERSION (I emphasise, because
installation instructions are quite different between Win95/98/NT and
Win2000/XP.
> Third, and most important (since it is really MT that I want), I cannot
> latex "hello_mt.tex" because of corruption errors in NFSS (TeX output
> appears below).
Yes, the error message you describe is known. Here's what needs to be
done. First, plop that CD back into your machine and have Explorer
ready to look at both its contents and those in c:\yandy.
> So for the moment I am dead in the water and would appreciate any
> suggestions you might have. If the problems will be fixed with a current
> install CD, you might drop one in the mail to me -- I can be trusted to
> return the old one should you wish it.
The fixes take less time than the mail ;-) So here goes. This is taken
from mail from early June on what the other user did. I've going to
use double >>, to distinguish his text from yours:
>> Could not find the mathtime.sty or times.sty, so went to the CD
>> ROM:\MATHPLUS\PSNFSS directory, copied everything to my
>> C:\YANDY\TEX\LATEX directory and ran Latex on mathtime.ins. This
>> created additional files, but not a times.sty, which appeared to be
>> the only missing file according to latax's complaints. This, I found
>> in the yyadd.zip file in the demo directory of the CD-ROM (search
>> reported it was in the PSNFSS directory, but this did not exist on the
>> ROM and crashed explorer when I tried to copy the found file -
>> strange). Anyway, with these files in place the file compiles and can
>> be viewed by dviwindo. The remaining odd part is the numerous warning
>> messages in the log file, as sample of which is:
>>
>> (c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/fontenc.sty
>> Package: fontenc 2000/08/30 v1.91 Standard LaTeX package
>> (C:/YANDY/TEX/LATEX/ly1enc.def
>> File: ly1enc.def 1997/03/21 v0.3 Y\&Y's texnansi encoding (DPC))
>> LaTeX Font Info: Try loading font information for LY1+ptm on
>> input line 96.
>> (C:/YANDY/TEX/LATEX/ly1ptm.fd
>> File: ly1ptm.fd 1997/01/26 LY1/ptm (Times Roman) with Adobe file
>> names. (DPC) )) (C:/YANDY/TEX/LATEX/mathtime.sty
>> Package: mathtime 1997/10/10 v1.0e mathtime font support (FMi/DPC)
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OT1' has changed to `LY1' for symbol font
>> (Font) `operators' in the math version `normal' on input line 73.
>> LaTeX Font Info: Overwriting symbol font `operators' in version
>> `normal' (Font) OT1/cmr/m/n --> LY1/ptm/m/n on
>> input line 73.
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `MY1' for symbol
>> font (Font) `letters' in the math version `normal' on
>> input line 74.
and so on and so forth.
Note that the above are ONLY warning messages -- that is,
informational. They do not stop processing, which is what error
messages do. The best reference I've found on understanding error and
warning messages is Kopka and Daly's _A Guide to LaTeX2e_ (2nd
ed). However, there's now a 3rd edition (so it may not even have that
`2e' appended to `LaTeX' anymore) which obviously is a newer version
to acquired. Anywys, it's got a section on font error messages and
another on font warnings. I think the upshot is that OT1 get converted
to LY1, which is the Y&Y encoding. But the font-savvy on this list
will know much better -- and corrections to anything idiotic I say
will come swiftly ;-) So we'll both learn ...
Now, back to locating potentially missing materials. Here's more on
the fonts, again the text with wedges ( >> ) in front are the user, and
my replies at that time are prefixed with ++ signs:
>> Now for font locations. I did a search for mtex and found the
>> following:
>> mtex.pfb and mtex.pfm both in c:\WINNT\Fonts
>> mtex.tfm in c:\yandy\fonts\nontext\tfm-mt
>> the c:\winnt\fonts directory has all of the .pfm fonts that are on
>> the installation disk, but I noticed it does not have any of the
>> .pfb files that are on the installation disk. However, it sounds
>> like these are not needed.
++ Oh, I do believe they _are_ needed. On p.4 of the Technical Addendum
++ (the bigger manual), I find this:
++
++ On the Windows Platform, a Type 1 font consists of two files:
++
++ PFB ...
++
++ PFM ...
++
++ So now that we know you need 'em, maybe the problem is that they're in
++ a place dviwindo.ini doesn't know about. It's Sunday morning ... I'm
++ supposed to be doing family stuff not this. So this is about all I cal
++ do right now. But have a read through some of this fonts stuff and
++ check that your .pfbs are in a place that dvipsone can find them.
++
++ But it does sound like we're making progress, overall ... a bit, no?
++ Perhaps? ;-))
>> Is the "corrupted NFSS tables." message in the YANDYTEX DOS box
>> during texing significant? There was an initial problem with my
>> CD-ROM CTAN installation, but I was sent a new CD-ROM with this
>> fixed. This may be unrelated but could be a piece of the puzzle.
++ Maybe. I'd like to defer this part of your query to Robin, as he's
++ more familiar with nfss things than I.
>> Thanks again.
++ And thank you for your patience!
=====
If there are any updates or further information anyone has to pass on
to Dan, I'm sure he'd really appreciate it.
Ch.
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Christina,
Thanks a lot for your help.
1. I created a new directory lucidabr under yandy\tex\latex
2. I copied all the files from cdrom:\lucidabr\psnfss to this new directory
3. LaTex'd lucidabr.yy in this new directory
and now it works.
-Ethem
Christina Thiele wrote:
> I see this problem hasn't yet had a response. The NFSS corrupted bit
> was so familiar, however, that I've gone back through old mail to find
> it. In early Sept., a member of the techsupport forum posted a similar
> problem, and my reply was to forward a commented reply that I'd sent
> to someone else earlier on ;-)
>
> So, as I'm pressed -- and you haven't had a reply -- here's that Sept
> reply. I hope you can sift through the various levels of replies.
>
> Ch.
>
> P.S. I'm cc'ing this to you directly, in case you aren't yet a member
> of the forum. All replies normally only go to the techsupport
> forum, to not only let others know how a problem's been solved,
> but also to act as a kind of resource archive. So, if you aren't
> yet subscribed to techsupport, please do so! And let us know if
> the suggestions work!
>
> ======
>
> Ethem Alpaydin writes:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have Y&Y Tex 2.2 CM + lucida that I have just bought and installed on
>>my Windows 2000.
>>
>>When I LaTeX hello_lb.tex, I get the error message I quote below. I have
>>no problem with TeX or LaTeX 2.09 and can use lucida with them without
>>any problem, by \input'ing lcdlatex. I have no problem when I LaTeX
>>hello_cm either.
>>
>>I'll appreciate your help.
>>
>>Regards,
>>-Ethem
>>
>>The error message is:
>>
>>This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Y&Y TeX 2.2.4)
>>(C:/texinputs/hello_LB.tex
>>LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
>>(c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/article.cls
>>Document Class: article 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard LaTeX document class
>>(c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/size10.clo))
>>(c:/yandy/tex/latex/unpacked/fontenc.sty
>>(c:/yandy/tex/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/ly1/ly1enc.def)
>>
>>LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `LY1/ptm/m/n' undefined
>>(Font) using `LY1/ptm/m/n' instead on input line 96.
>>
>>! Corrupted NFSS tables.
>>wrong at fontshape ...message {Corrupted NFSS tables}
>> error at fontshape else
>>let f...
>>l.96 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont
>>
>>?
>>
>>---
>>
>>
>
>
>
> ===============
> ===============
>
>
>
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Ethem Alpaydin writes:
>
> Christina,
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> 1. I created a new directory lucidabr under yandy\tex\latex
> 2. I copied all the files from cdrom:\lucidabr\psnfss to this new directory
> 3. LaTex'd lucidabr.yy in this new directory
>
> and now it works.
>
> -Ethem
I'm absolutely delighted to hear this!
And I see that your instructions are sooo much more succinct than mine
;-) Now that your reply is here in techsupport, it'll be part of
everyone's `collection' of mail, as it were, so we can refer to it in
future.
Many thanks for having replied with the details of what you did. It
will be a great help for the next person who posts about corrupted
NFSS stuff ;-)
Ch.
>
> > ...
P.S. I'm cc'ing this to you directly, as I don't know if you're a
forum member yet or not.
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"corrupt nfss tables" seem in all these cases to be because
-- times/ly1 encoding is defined as default ("error") font
-- times/ly1 is selected as current text font
-- latex looks for ly1ptm.fd so it can use the text font
-- latex can't find it: this is an error, so it tries to select the
error font, but it can't do that either -- this is "corruption"
the solution is presumably to find ly1ptm.fd somewhere and stick it with
ly1enc.fd on your hard disc. there are copies, on my disc, in
/mnt/cdrom/mathplus/PSNFSS/ly1ptm.fd
/mnt/cdrom/mathtime/PSNFSS/ly1ptm.fd
(sorry, i've stuck my cd in a unix machine -- /mnt/cdrom is the cd
drive)
give it a try and see if it solves the problem.
robin (who ought to have spotted this before...sorry, folks)
>From cthiele Mon Feb 2 21:38:39 2004
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Jochen Autschbach writes:
>
>
> Thanks for the replies so far. Following some of the advice I copied the
> content of the directories /mathtime/PSNFSS and mathplus/PSNFSS on the CD
> to c:\yandy\TEX\LATEX\PSNFSS and latex'ed mathtime.ins.
> At least now I can latex the example c:\yandy\TEXINPUT\hello_MT.tex.
Well, that's one down ;-)
> However, I still don't get DVIWINDO to show anything because it always
> comes up with the already mentioned errors. I could not find any .pfm or
> .pfb files in c:\yandy\ except for FONTS/PFM/mh2scr__.pfm.
> The MathTime .pfm files are in c:\WINDOWS\Fonts. Perhaps the problem is
> due to missing information from the .pfb files?
>
> Any ideas?
Did you install the MathTime fonts from the CD's mathtime folder? That
is, the PSNFSS stuff is one issue, but the fonts are another. If you
do a search on your c-drive (not just c:\yandy), you should find the
.pfb and .pfm files under c:\windows if installation went ok.
Next thing: check your dviwindo.ini file, which is in the c:\windows
folder. Check that you've got all the paths set up -- look in the
smaller manual and the technical addendum for details on a lot of the
lines that you'll find in the .ini file.
And of course, you can always reboot to see if that sorts things out
;-)
Finally ... while it's not clear why this works, more than one person
on this list has reported that re-installing Y&YTeX itself sometimes
gets things sorted out. Not the fonts, just Y&YTeX.
But I'd first check my c:\windows folder for the .pfb and .pfm files;
and then check the CD to confirm that there's a mathtime folder, and
that it's the one you accessed via the Control Panel to install the MT
fonts.
Ch.
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