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

[Lance Carnes]

At 04:23 PM 4/12/2007, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>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.

MTPro original used virtual fonts, but MTPro2 doesn't, and it works 
OK with Y&Y TeX.  Not sure why the pdf has garbled fonts.  Probably 
something PowerPoint is doing.

Lance


>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
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