[OS X TeX] lucida installation

chip brock brock at pa.msu.edu
Tue Jun 18 21:06:21 EDT 2002



somehow this didn't go this morning??

thanks,
Chip

On 6/18/02 8:21 AM, "chip brock" <brock at pa.msu.edu> wrote:

> hi
> 
> Well, my  permissions are:
> 
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock% pwd
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock% ls -al
> total 0
> drwxrwxrwx   7 root  admin  194 Jun 17 22:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x   9 root  admin  262 Jun 17 21:59 ..
> drwxrwxrwx  16 root  admin  500 Jun 17 22:57 lubright
> drwxrwxrwx  20 root  admin  636 Jun 17 22:45 lucida
> drwxrwxrwx  10 root  admin  296 Jun 17 22:59 lucidfax
> drwxrwxrwx  22 root  admin  704 Jun 17 22:52 lucsans
> drwxrwxrwx  24 root  admin  772 Jun 17 23:03 lumath
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock% ls ./lumath
> LBMA.PFB  LBMD.PFB  LBMDO.PFB LBMI.PFB  LBMS.PFB  LBR.PFB
> LBMAD.PFB LBMDI.PFB LBME.PFB  LBMO.PFB  LBMSD.PFB
> [brock:fonts/type1/yandy] brock%
> 
> You'll notice that I've removed the lowercase versions. That didn't help
> with the missing math symbols. Also, I've attached my source file and the
> pdf that it makes. I think that the font is largely lucida, but you'll see
> that there are problems with the letter f and math symbols. If you look at
> the Document Fonts in the pdf, you'll also see that this is weird, as it was
> in the simple comparison file that Michael sent me last night .
> 
> Is there anything funky about the directory structure where this lives?
> 
> 
> If possible, it would be interesting to see you run my file (there is one
> macro file that's mine - prd_input.tex - that you can take out without
> causing much pain.
> 
> thanks, Adrian and Michael for your slogging through this with me...
> 
> Chip
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/18/02 3:03 AM, "Adrian Heathcote"
> <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>>> what do you mean specifically by 'encoding'?
>> 
>> The encoding is a mapping of glyph positions onto some new set of
>> positions so that TeX knows where to find them.
>> 
>>> And, where do the vf, and
>>> balance of the tfm files go? I gather that if I were a wintel machine, I
>>> would have received an installer with the download...!
>> 
>> The positions for the vf files are in the fonts folder with the tfm
>> folder and the type 1 folder. They are named separately.
>>> 
>>> In the old days, outline fonts meant one thing, in this business, what
>>> does
>>> it mean?
>> 
>> It means the .pfb files. These are what cost all the money. The rest can
>> be freely distributed.
>>> 
>>> All that I 'installed' were the pfb fonts, since that seemed to work for
>>> Michael before. What I did specifically is download and unzip the files
>>> from
>>> yandy. I created the directories from
>>> 
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy
>>> 
>>> to match the tfm directories, copied the corresponding yandy pfb files
>>> into
>>> my new directories one for each that existed already in the
>>> 
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/yandy
>>> 
>>> directory. Then, since they were all UPPER CASE after unzipping, I made
>>> copies of them and by hand changed the originals to lower case, leaving
>>> the
>>> copies still there, as it made it easy to see that I changed them
>>> properly
>>> without a typo. Then I started to use them.
>> 
>> I didn't change from upper to lowercase and wonder if that is where your
>> problem came in. Try installing the originals with their uppercase names.
>>> 
>>> The ..../tfm/yandy directories contain:
>>> 
>>> [brock:fonts/tfm/yandy] brock% ls -R
>>> courier   lucida    lucsans   mathpi    mathtime  times
>>> lubright  lucidfax  lumath    mathplus  symbol    zapfding
>>> 
>>> namely:
>>> 
>>> ./lubright:
>>> lbd.tfm   lbdi.tfm  lbdsc.tfm lbi.tfm   lbr.tfm   lbrsc.tfm lbsl.tfm
>>> 
>>> ./lucida:
>>> lbh.tfm   lbkr.tfm  lbtb.tfm  lbto.tfm
>>> lbc.tfm   lbki.tfm  lbl.tfm   lbtbo.tfm lbtr.tfm
>>> 
>>> ./lucidfax:
>>> lfd.tfm   lfdi.tfm  lfi.tfm   lfr.tfm
>>> 
>>> ./lucsans:
>>> lsb.tfm   lsd.tfm   lsi.tfm   lstb.tfm  lsto.tfm
>>> lsbi.tfm  lsdi.tfm  lsr.tfm   lstbo.tfm lstr.tfm
>>> 
>>> ./lumath:
>>> lbma.tfm  lbmd.tfm  lbmdo.tfm lbmi.tfm  lbmr.tfm  lbmsd.tfm
>>> lbmad.tfm lbmdi.tfm lbme.tfm  lbmo.tfm  lbms.tfm
>>> 
>> Also: you really don't need everything about encoding in the preamble.
>> Just put
>> 
>> \usepackage[expert]{lucidabr}
>> 
>> That should work if everything is configured correctly.
>> 
>> But it sound as if your system doesn't know that the pfb fonts are
>> there. (You can see what lucida fonts should look like by looking at The
>> Latex Companion. It was done in lucida.)
>> 
>> Send a sample perhaps
>> 
>> Adrian Heathcote
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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