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

[Jochen Autschbach]

As Lance already mentioned, the mtpro2 fonts work fine with Y&Y tex, and whatever I copy from dviwindo to PP looks fine in PP. (There is one character (\otimes) that doesn't show up properly in the pdf even when I use Y&Y's MathTime but with mtpro2 it's most of the math glyphs.) Are there "windows standard" and nonstandard character numberings (is this called encoding?) for the mathtime and mtpro2 type1 fonts which don't get translated properly via the metafile copy&paste mechanism? Would there be a way to let the pdf generator (I use Acrobat) know which one to use? To me it seems that the wrong character out of the correct font shows up in the PDF.

Jochen


----- Original Message ----
From: Lance Carnes <lcarnes at pctex.com>
To: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Jochen Autschbach <jautschbach at yahoo.com>; YANDYTEX at tug.org
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:21:45 PM
Subject: Re: [yandytex] the original Y&Y's mathtime font  package(complete) vs MTPro2

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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