smedley@udel.edu (Trevor Smedley) (10/25/90)
I ftp'ed the pslatex stuff from sun.soe.clarkson.edu and have spent the last four hours trying to get things to work properly. If anyone out there ahs installed this successfully, I'd appreciate some help. Here is the situation: What we have here is version 2.95 of latex, the "standard" PS fonts (.tfm and .pdr files), and versions 2.16 and 3.5 of dvitps from the TeXPS package. At least part of the problem seems to be that we don't have the fonts Symbol-Oblique, Times-Roman-SmallCaps and Times-Roman-Oblique, and the pslatex stuff doesn't include .pl files to make .tfm files for all these. Well, I managed to find .tfm files for these, and finally make pslplain-t.tfm worked. When I try to latex something (with virtex \&pslplain-t) it does ok on the normal text, but as soon as it gets to anything in math mode, I get ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts. Does anyone know what causes this? To see if I could get anywhere, I commented out all the math stuff in my test file, and tried again and now it seems that dvitps can't find all the pdr files it needs. There are none for Symbol-Oblique, Times-Roman-SmallCaps and Times-Roman-Oblique, since I was just able to get tfm files. Is there any way to get around this. I believe that if (when?) I am able to get a postscript file generated, I have to stick the file makefonts.ps at the beginning of it somewhere, to generate the derived fonts. Does anyone know exactly how to go about doing this? I'm really stuck, and I shouldn't have wasted my whole day hacking on this thing. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Trevor Smedley smedley@udel.edu
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (10/25/90)
In article <34465@nigel.ee.udel.edu> smedley@udel.edu (Trevor Smedley) writes:
To see if I could get anywhere, I commented out all the math stuff in my
test file, and tried again and now it seems that dvitps can't find all
the pdr files it needs. There are none for Symbol-Oblique,
Times-Roman-SmallCaps and Times-Roman-Oblique, since I was just able to
get tfm files. Is there any way to get around this.
I doubt if you want to be told this, but I think you could try starting from
a fresh base. You are mixing some macros that were written with dvi2ps
in mind together with a slightly idiosyncratic driver (no-one else has
.pdr files). I personally find it more fun to use Rokicki's dvips (ftp
from labrea.stanford.edu), which has examples of eg `times.sty' in the
distribution. That way you know it all comes from the same stable.
Investigating Mittelbach and Schoepf's font selection macros would be
well worth while, but does require some investment of time to get used
to their new way of declaring font families
sebastian rahtz
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