[yandytex] font installation in Windows 2000

[Sue Rodd]

Hi All

The last time I had a panic about installing fonts, Christina kindly sent
the attached summary.

Since then, I've happily been using the "psamsfonts" option to get odd sizes
of computer modern for abstracts, etc. (see comment 1 below).

Now I have a new class file for another journal, which needs BOLD computer
modern in 9- and 6-point sizes for its abstract, but despite putting in the
[psamsfonts] option as well as \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb}, I keep
getting Courier (both on-screen and printed) instead of the bolded maths
(error messages for cmbsy6, cmbsy9, cmmib6, cmmib9, cmex9 in both cases).

The relevant line in the class file is:
\normalfont\bfseries\small\fontseries{b}\mathversion{bold}

Am I missing something obvious here?   If I take out "\mathversion..." it
works fine, and it works fine if I use the [mathtime] option instead of CM,
but most authors are not going to have that.

I tried picking up the missing sizes, but although "install font" SEEMS to
work, DVIWINDO doesn't recognise them.

Help please???

Thanks a million

Sue

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Techsupport-owner at yandy.com 
> [mailto:Techsupport-owner at yandy.com] On Behalf Of Christina Thiele
> Sent: 30 September 2003 01:34
> To: Techsupport at yandy.com
> Subject: MSAM/MSBM fonts [was: Re: font installation in Windows 2000]
> 
> 
> Sorry for the delay in getting back with some info. 
> 
> Here's the info that I've been gathering from some other 
> members of the support team. I figured I'd try to consolidate 
> the details in one message, so here goes. Any errors or other 
> mis-steps will be swiftly fixed, I'm sure ;-)
> 
> 
> The MSAM/MSBM fonts are available either in public or commercial
> forms: from Y&Y, they're included in the `AMS' folder that 
> you have on your CD, provided you bought them.
> 
> If you didn't buy the AMS fonts, then you have some other 
> choices: either use a workaround from the amsfonts package, 
> or acquire public versions of the missing sizes ... but you 
> should check that their quality matches that of your 
> Y&Y-purchased fonts. You didn't mention in your initial post 
> where you'd acquired the MSAM/MSBM files from ... If the 
> Bakoma set, see below for comments.
> 
> 
> 1. The amsfonts package has an option to cope with the absence of
>    several sizes: the amsfonts.dtx file mentions the psamsfonts
>    option. This option assumes the presence of only msam<5,7,10> (and 
>    similarly for msbm and the regular and bold euler fonts*).
>    However, it may give different line and page breaks if it's
>    invoked after something has been run with all sizes of the fonts
>    rather than just the 5, 7, and 10pt versions scaled as needed. That
>    is, if it's used, it should be used from the very beginning.
>    
>    *Page 254 of the revised chap8 to _The Companion_, near the end of 
>     section 8.6.6, describes the amsfonts package (as well as
>     amssymb, which loads amsfonts). It says that it:
> 
>       ... defines the \mathfrak and \mathbb commands and sets up the
>       fonts msam (extra math symbols A) and msbm (extra math symbols
>       B), eufm (Euler Fraktur), extra sizes of cmmib (bold math italic
>       and bold lowercase Greek), and cmbsy (bold math symbols and bold
>       script), for use in mathematics.
> 
>    All these packages recognise the [psamsfonts] option, which will
>    use the Y&Y/Blue Sky Research version of the AMSFonts collection
>    (which is freely available on CTAN).
> 
> 
> 2. You can acquire the public BlueSky fonts (Type 1) but they don't
>    contain several of the ms* font sizes -- 6, 8 and 9pt. The
>    [psamsfonts] workaround can deal with that. You can get the fonts
>    from CTAN but you should take the whole .zip file and then pull out
>    the relevant files:
> 
>       fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1/amsps-pc.zip
> 
>    The fonts are of course also available directly from the AMS
>    website -- see here for details:
> 
>       http://www.ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html
> 
> 
> 3. There is another Type 1 collection that includes the ms* fonts at
>    all sizes -- Bakoma -- but there are some issues to consider:
>       - there are restrictions on using it commercially (this 
>         includes publication of journals by scientific societies)
>       - the quality isn't as good as the BlueSky/Y&Y versions
> 
>    The general feeling seems to be that, if it's the case that your
>    MSAM/MSBM font files came from the bakoma collection, you'd be
>    better off deleting them before you proceed with adding the other
>    versions. 
> 
> 
> So it's not a matter of re-installing Y&YTeX but simply a 
> fonts issue. Or so it sounds ;-) 
> 
> Ch.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> LMS journals writes:
> > 
> > Dear All
> > 
> > I've been watching the recent comments on font 
> installation, having at 
> > last had a chance to come back to "housekeeping" (as distinct from 
> > "firefighting"...), and also now trying to use JUST the 2K machine, 
> > and not my steam-driven '95.
> > 
> > Last week I needed MSAM8 and MSAM9, also MSBM5, MSBM8 and 
> MSBM9 for a 
> > paper. I have fetched the PFM and PFB files, and installed 
> the fonts 
> > using the "Control panel" route (i.e., not just drag-and 
> drop).  The 
> > "installing fonts" progress bar worked fine. I have also 
> put TFM files 
> > for the fonts in the directory where my other AMS fonts TFM 
> files are 
> > (c:\yandy\fonts\tfm\nontext\tfm-ams). They have the same 
> date-stamp as 
> > the TFMs for my existing AMS fonts (including other sizes 
> of the same 
> > fonts). I couldn't, however, find any AFM files for the new 
> font sizes 
> > on the CTAN site.
> > 
> > The new fonts now show up in c:\winnt\fonts, with all the 
> rest (only 
> > difference is that their names are in lower-case; the fonts 
> that are 
> > "happy" are in upper-case; I tried renaming them in case 
> something was 
> > case-specific, but wasn't allowed to do it by Windows). I have got 
> > "Ignorebadinstall=1" in my .ini file.
> > I have run "setupttf".
> > 
> > The new fonts do NOT show up on the list of fonts in dviwindo, so I 
> > can't use  "Write AFM". I get a Courier substitute on-screen in 
> > DVIWindo, and constant "pings" if I switch on "Complain missing 
> > fonts". BUT they print out fine!!!  I get a warning message "no 
> > ATMREG.ATM" (which I always get, and was told at some point earlier 
> > not to worry about because of having 2K -- see below), and an error 
> > message for each of the new fonts: "expecting number not `dup'". 
> > Nevertheless, the printing goes through.
> > 
> > Which is a relief when it comes to sending author proofs 
> and pubishing 
> > the papers, but a massive bind for editing/proofreading...
> > 
> > I don't have any sort of version of ATM -- my understanding 
> was that 
> > it is not needed for 2K.
> > 
> > The difference from the successful installation of xypic a 
> couple of 
> > months ago seems to be the AFM files, which I managed to 
> find in that 
> > case -- or is there something else I'm missing here???
> > 
> > ??????????
> > 
> > All the best
> > 
> > Sue
> >  
> > 
> > 
>