[OS X TeX] Fonts and PSNFSS
Alain Schremmer
Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net
Sat Jun 12 13:44:48 EDT 2004
Thanks very much.
Please don't bother with this any further. (I would hate to see how much
you would be able to write were you /not/ short of time.)
The reason is that I do not really need pifont in my writing (or will
I?) and that I did this mostly as an exercise because I hate to be
helpless. Certainly not because I wanted to upgrade from 9.0a. What must
really have happened can only be due to my general incompetence (can't,
won't, use the term I used previously as it got me, privately, berated).
In fact, I had suspected that the package must have been i-installed but
I had no idea how to go about checking whether it had and what had
happened to it.
When I wanted to typeset the file I had been given as a sample for my
instruction, I got
!Undefined control sequence <recently read> \c at lor@to at ps
1.41 \psset at bordercolor(white)
?
and when I did goto error the following was highlighted.
\usepackage{pifont} %%for the dingautolists and the proofsymbol
Hence my "conclusion". But when I first got the file, it worked. So, the
question is, what idiotic thing did I do?
I will look up TDS. (Thanks for spelling out "TeX directory system").
Actually, I did read Wierda's two readmes in teTeX but I didn't study
them as they seemed way beyond what my comprehension of what the problem
seemed to be to me. Now I will, along with your explanations.
While I have little trouble reading the Companion, well I do, sort of,
but like it a lot, /this/ is where I find the steep learning curve
really to be. I was reassured to read Wierda's "TeX's way of finding
files is quite rich and complicated and at certain points counterintuitive."
While I appreciate your help--you have no idea how much, I absolutely do
not want you to cut into more of your time than you can throwaway at me.
I would also take the opportunity to thank again Will Robertson and to
apologise to him for refraining from following his instructions. But I
will go look at the folder structure some more.
Regards
Schremmer
P. S. In looking up things, I found a folder that seems to have remained
from my ill-fated attempt to command Fink to install iTeXMac, before I
i-installed TeXshop.
It is called sw, right next to the system, and contains bin, etc, fink,
include, lib, sbin, share, src, var. Is it harmless or should I do
something about it?
Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Le 12 juin 04, à 07:48, Alain Schremmer a écrit :
>
>> Somebody on wintel gave me a file which, when I tried to typeset it,
>> required pifont. After doing a bit of homework, I downloaded all that
>> was required by *PSNFSS 9.1b -- Installation instructions*. Then I
>> came to the following
>>
>> [...]
>
>
> You shouldn't follow the instructions that you reproduced in your
> message, they assume the TDS (for a description of the TDS see
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/help/tds.dvi, drag this file onto
> the Desktop, this will create a copy there, and drag the copy onto
> TeXShop to have it converted to PDF and displayed) variant used in the
> TeXLive CDs, but not to the TDS variant used in teTeX (upon which the
> TeX i-Package is based). For exemple there is no "source" folder,
> "pub" is "public" instead, and many more of the same.
>
> If that's really needed I can try to find time later this weekend
> (though I'm really short of time) to write detailed instructions, but
> I don't think that's the case: PSNFSS 9.0a and it component pifont.sty
> are indeed included in the TeX i-Package. For example the package
> pifont lives at
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/pifont.sty, and the
> various files from lw35nfss*.zip live inside:
>
> .map files: /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips/psnfss/
> .afm files: /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/adobe/
> .tfm files: /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/tfm/adobe/
> .vf files: /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/vf/adobe/
> .fd files: /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/
>
> In my opinion, doing a reinstall would be more harmful than
> beneficial. Plus you could get a system that is not homogeneous:
> PSNFSS9.1b possibly relying on more recent versions of other LaTeX
> packages than those included in the TeX i-Package. Gerben Wierda has
> explained in other occasions why he won't update this i-Package right
> now (TDS -- the TeX directory system -- is in the middle of a major
> reorganization, as a consequence it is pretty unstable for the moment,
> and Gerben is waiting for the distributions his TeX i-Package is based
> on -- teTeX and TeXLive -- to reach a stable state themselves before).
>
> Below I have included the list of changes to PSNFSS from 9.0a to 9.1b
> (taken from the file changes.txt from
> tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss/ on CTAN). Do you really and
> absolutely need one of them?
>
> To use the package pifont you should just write in the preamble of
> your LaTeX document:
>
> \usepackage{pifont}
>
> The documentation for PSNFSS is
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/latex/psnfss/psnfss2e.pdf.
>
>> (4) Fonts required for PSNFSS
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> (5) Type1 Font files
>>
>> [...]
>
>
> All these fonts are already there, you shouldn't need to install them.
> See:
>
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/urw/
>
>> I read the TeXshop help but it doesn't seem to be involved with
>> fonts. What is? All I care is pdf.
>
>
> TeXShop doesn't deal with font itself, it's the content of the TeX
> i-Package, installed inside /Library/teTeX/, that does. The help for
> it lives in various "doc" subfolders inside.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
>
> From changes.txt
>
> 2004-01-26 PSNFSS 9.1b
>
> * freenfss.zip with fixed VFs and metrics for the Bitstream
> Charter fonts: New kerning pairs Y-g and Y-s; corrected
> \fontdimen1 of the italic shapes; improved italic Euro symbols
>
> * helvet.sty: Fixed implementation of the key-value interface.
>
> * Warning messages added to obsolete packages.
>
> 2003-11-17 PSNFSS 9.1
>
> * Updated VFs for all Adobe text font families, except Utopia:
> Added \texteuro, fixed zdot and \textasteriskcentered.
>
> * Courier: normal asterisk (*) is now vertically centered.
>
> * New VFs for Bitstream Charter with revised kerning data and
> faked \texteuro. In particular, the overly tight kerning
> between L and quoteright has been abolished.
>
> * The Pazo doublestroke font is now assigned the encoding U,
> rather than T1 and OT1. The files t1fplmbb.fd and ot1fplm.fd
> are replaced by ufplmbb.fd.
>
> * The Utopia fonts are no longer regarded as "required"; the
> package utopia.sty is marked as "obsolete".
>
> * Documentation psnfss2e.* updated accordingly.
>
> * Test files enhanced to test the Euro symbols and the Pazo
> doublestroke font, while Utopia is omitted now.
>
>
> 2003-03-02 PSNFSS 9.0c
>
> * mathptmx,sty, mathpazo.sty: \upOmega and \UpDelta are of
> type \mathord now, to make sure that they are always upright
>
> * pifont.sty: \Pifill and \dingfill should no longer fail at
> the beginning or end of a paragraph. (Bug fix suggested by FMi.)
>
> * mathptm(x).sty: \jmath, \coprod, and \amalg will now generate
> error messages rather than print black squares. (Suggested by
> FMi.)
>
> * Small changes to the documentation psnfss2e.*.
>
> * Enhanced test0.tex to test also the math alphabets.
>
> * 8r.enc: version 2.0, comprising all of the Mac Roman
> character set, too.
>
> * The *.map files and the file 8r.enc have been moved out of the
> ZIP archives, since their final location in the texmf tree may
> vary wrt/ changes in the TDS specs.
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