tony@TUI.MARCAM.DSIR.GOVT.NZ (Tony Cooper) (06/21/91)
I am new to the TeX installation process and I have just installed TeX3.14 and dvips 5.47 on our SunOS 4.1 Sparc. No problems. Everything works fine. The problem is that we used to use old font names for Postscript fonts and I want those files to still work. Eg the new name for Helvetica is rphvr but we used to use ppshlv since that is what our Vax/VMS system uses. My question is simple: how do I set things up so that both rphvr and ppshlv are recognised as being Helvetica? The psfonts.map file has the line rphvr Helvetica in it and the tfm and vf files rphvr.tfm and phvr.vf exist. I tried adding the line rphvr ppshlv and used dvips on an old (version 2.991) dvi file. The printout was lousy. The fonts were wrong, the spacing terrible, and the ligatures were missing. What did I do wrong? So I TeX'ed a new (version 3.14) dvi file. TeX couldn't find ppshlv.tfm. I made a link to rphvr.tfm. Then TeX couldn't find ppstime.tfm. I gave up at that stage cos there was no equivalent new file. ppstime refers to Times-Extension - I don't have that in the new tfm or afm files. I have Times-Extended and/or Times-Expanded (I don't know the difference) but I'm not sure which is which. Also I need a Small Caps font but don't know how to make a tfm file using the 5.47 afm2tfm. I could make a Small Caps vf file but don't know how to get TeX to recognize it without a tfm file. Basically I'm confused over vf and tfm files, 3 names for the same font, Extended vs Extension vs Expanded, why does the psfonts.map file allow creation of afm Extended (Oblique etc) files but not afm Small Caps files and can I do the aliasing without creating both old name and new name .tfm files? And why didn't it work when I tried the old dvi file? Thanks, Tony Cooper sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz