Fonts from Mac to Linux (was Y & Y - are they still alive ?)

[Walter Schmidt]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:12:24 -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:

>Has anyone here had any experiences extracting the fonts from the
>BlueSky package and install it under Linux ?

I don't have such experience, but the only crucial issue is
whether you succed to obtain the font files in .PFB (or .PFA)
format, which suits non-Mac systems.  Everything else that's
required to make the Lucida Bright fonts work, is available
from CTAN:  Font metrics, virtual fonts, and fd files reside
in the directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida; the macros are
available from macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx.

I hope very much that BlueSky (or someone else) takes over
the distribution of the Lucida Fonts for non-Mac systems.
Not having these fonts available any longer would constitute
a great loss for the TeX world!

Walter