[yandytex] lstbo not installing under ATM

[Christina Thiele]

Karl Berry wrote:
> We received a report from a user that installing Lucida Sans Typewriter
> Bold Oblique (lstbo.pfb+pfm) fails to install under ATM ("font is not
> valid"), apparently because the name is 32 chars long, and only 31 is
> now accepted (despite documentation, etc.).  All the other fonts are
> fine, and non-Y&Y TeX is fine.
> 
> I tried just changing the name in pfb+pfm, but that didn't work.  Mike
> Prager (who also sent in the original report, years ago) saw the same
> oh-so-helpful error message when he tried it out.
> 
>>From poking around in old mail, etc., it seems Berthold may have created
> variants of this font to work around the problem:
> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/yandytex/2004-January/000722.html

Um, what I get on reading the exchanges of messages at the above URL is 
that ``It's a bug in Windows 2000 Pro.'' and that there's an OS bugfix 
that's to be fetched to solve the problem:

 > No, I think it's safe to say that ATM 4.1 Deluxe works fine.  A minor
 > bug-fix (ATMFIX.EXE) is available from the Adobe Web site and is
 > recommended.

Or am I reading this exchange incorrectly?


> I'm wondering if anyone here has ever seen those modified fonts, or has
> any knowledge/insight about the problem?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl
> 
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Ch.