[yandytex] Lucida fonts with lucimatx in YandY: TeX's OK, preview bombs

paul paul at pretex.com
Wed Mar 22 21:22:04 CET 2006


Walter

This is a version of the .MAP file.  If you read it ity is self explanatory



Walter Schmidt wrote:

> Murray Eisenberg schrieb:
> > What would get renamed to what under your suggestion?  The newly
> > distributed Lucida pfb's and pfm's have the following names:
> >
> >     lbc.pfm   and lbc.pfb
> >     lbd.pfm   etc.
> > [...]
> >
> > But the tfm's have names:
> >
> > hlcbot8a.tfm
> >     hlcbot8c.tfm
> >     hlcbot8r.tfm [etc}
>
> In TeX systems such as teTeX and MikTeX, the relation between
> TFMs and PFBs is established by a so-called "font map file".
> Its entries say, for instance
>
> hlhr8y LucidaBright "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc <lbr.pfb
>
> which means:
>
> The TFM with the name "hlhr8y" refers to the font file lbr.pfb,
> with the internal /FontName "LucidaBright", and reencoded to
> TeXNANSI encoding using the encoding file texnansi.enc
>
> Another example:
>
> hlcrim LucidaNewMath-Italic <lbmi.pfb
>
> Here, the TFM "hlcrim" refers to the font file lbmi.pfb;
> the internal /FontName is "LucidaNewMath", and no reencoding
> is applied.
>
> The distribution includes a map lucida.map in the directory
> texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lucida.  This files works for teTeX,
> MikTeX, etc.
>
> I don't know how Y&Y-TeX would establish the relation between
> TFMs and physical font files.  Is it using a sort of "map file",
> too?  If yes, you can perhaps adopt lucida.map or, at least,
> take it as a starting point to create a map file for Y&Y-TeX.
> And, of course, you would have to remove existing map file entries
> that refer to the (non-standard) TFM names of the Lucida fonts
> used previously in Y&Y-TeX.
>
> Note, however, that all TFMs whose names end with "8r" are
> irrelevant for Y&Y-TeX, and the related map file entries can
> be ignored.  Only the TFMs ending with "8y", plus those for
> the math fonts, are useful in Y&Y-TeX.   Also, you need not
> install any TFMs whose names end with "8t" or "8c", and which
> have to related map file entries, anyway.
>
> Disclaiamer:  I know alsmost nothing about Y&Y-TeX, and I am
> nor running a M$ Win system, so I cannot try out my above
> sugestions in practice.  I just hope that I could point _you_
> to the right direction.
>
> HTH
> Walter
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