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- From: rlp@sunset.lanl.gov (Dick Phillips)
- Subject: Help with Blue Sky CM fonts for TeX
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.211750.24855@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Keywords: PostScript, fonts, Type 1
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Reply-To: rlp@lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:17:50 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- Folks:
-
- This may seem like an esoteric problem, but it's very real when you
- MUST solve it. I'm running TeX on a NeXT.
- For a book I'm doing, I need to use PostScript versions of the CM fonts;
- bitmapped versions are unacceptable. Fortunately, Blue Sky Research
- sells Type 1 versions of the CM fonts, 75 in all. I've bought them and
- installed them. Everything seemed to go smoothly until I tried printing
- the quadratic equation. That is, I used the simple Plain TeX expression:
-
- $$-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}\over 2a$$
-
- Curiously, all elements appeared to be correct, except the minus and
- plusminus signs were missing. I've tried several other equations with
- integral signs, matrix brackets, greek characters, etc., and I get
- mixed results. For example, theta is missing, while alpha and phi are
- correct. Also, the multiply "x" and left arrow don't appear. Any
- thoughts on what might be amiss? Seems like an encoding problem, but
- I wouldn't know where to look. Since this problem is not likely to be
- of widespread interest, please reply directly to me at rlp@lanl.gov.
- Thanks,
-
- Dick Phillips
-