[yandytex] Installing Y&Y on Windows 7

[Murray Eisenberg]

Please clarify: in Windows 7, do you nonetheless need to run Y&Y using " 
Windows XP mode" (essentially, a virtual machine running within 7).

If so, do you install the Y&Y programs and/or fonts within XP mode?

On 9/13/2010 9:51 AM, Beuthe, Thomas wrote:
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> Notes on installation of Y&Y on Windows 7.
>
> Up to and including Windows XP SP2 and Windows XP X64 (which is
> really just a Windows Server 2003 system) Y&Y installs without
> a problem using the normal method for both the fonts and the
> TeX/LaTeX system itself. The fonts should be installed using
> the "Install Fonts in Windows 2000 Pro" method, not any of the
> methods that involve installing and using ATM (the Adobe Type
> Manager).
>
> For Windows 7 (and perhaps Vista as well?) the procedure has to
> change. Installing the fonts by right-clicking on the disc icon
> and asking the fonts to be installed using the Windows 2000 Pro
> method will seemingly work, as long as you don't reboot the
> machine. As soon as you re-boot however you will find that the
> fonts were not really installed at all.
>
> The regular Y&Y TeX&  LaTeX install will still proceed as
> normal and will successfully install the Y&Y TeX&  LaTeX package.
>
> The fonts on Windows 7 are installed in a completely different
> manner than on all previous systems, which is probably why the
> normal install no longer works.
>
> Instead of using the automated install, you will need install
> the fonts manually. In order to do this, you will need to find
> all of the .pfm files on the install disk, gather them together
> in one spot, eliminate the doubles, and then install them. For
> the mathtime fonts, there are about 40 pfm files you will need
> to install. While you are at it, you can also install the pfm
> version of the cm fonts, which are freely available. There are
> about 94 cm-related pfm files.
>
> Once you have installed all of this, your Y&Y installation
> should work as it always has.

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