[yandytex] the original Y&Y's mathtime font package(complete) vs MTPro2

[Robin Fairbairns]

Jochen Autschbach <jautschbach at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I suppose in principle mtpro2 succeeds MathTime and I would prefer to
> use mtpro2. It works fine with MikTeX, Y&Y tex, and other tex/latex
> implementations that I've tried so far. There are some technical
> aspects, unfortunately, that have prevented me from switching to
> mtpro2. I use dviwindo to copy&paste equations from latex to
> powerpoint, then print from PP to pdf and use the pdf for
> presentations. If I do this with Y&Y's MathTime it works fine. When I
> use mtpro2 the equations look fine in powerpoint but the math symbols
> are replaced with different characters in the PDF file (smiley's and
> such things).  

aiui (i think it was mike spivak told me), mtpro2 requires virtual
fonts.

y&ytex doesn't do virtual fonts, so whatever's going on, you're missing
the effect of the virtual fonts.  odd characters in pdf doesn't strike
me as at all unlikely.

> (if someone has an idea how to fix this I'd love to hear about it)

if i'm right, there isn't a fix.

:-(

robin