Re: [MiKTeX] times font + \textcomp?

[<joe...@t-...>]

Hello Charles,

> If I comment out the \usepackage{mathptmx}, it works just fine and all 
> symbols are printed.  [When I do that, I'm using the CM fonts -- the 
> postscript CM fonts].  However, with the mathptmx package (or mathpazo 
> or times or ...) in use, boom -- more than half of the symbols are gone.

Do you mean the symbols are missing in YAP? And what about dvips'ing
the DVI file? Are the symbols also missing in the PS file?

YAP / makepk has some problems in generating the required PK fonts.
See the quote of a recent posting below. But in your case I wasn't
able to dvips the file because of an error:

 This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
 ' TeX output 2002.08.11:1222' -> mathptmx.ps
 DVIPS.EXE: ! Couldn't find header file cm-super-t1.enc
 Press any key to continue . . .

It seems you have installed the cm-super fonts while I have not (I'm
using MiKTeX 2.1). Do you? What steps have you taken to do this? It would
be nice if these fonts could be installed with the MiKTeX package
manager but I think it's not possible yet.


Best regards,
Joerg                           


>> I've downloaded and installed the Pazo math fonts into my localtexmf
>> tree (/localtexmf/fonts/type1/public/pazo), made the appropriate
>> adjustments to the psfonts.map in the dvips and pdftex
>> configurations and refreshed the filename database.  I get good
>> results with both dvips and pdflatex, but the pazo symbols (I'm
>> using \xi a lot in my document) are not displayed correctly in Yap.
>> I get a roman 'x' instead of a \xi. This is with an installation of
>> MiKTeX 2.1 (complete) on a win98 machine.

> I can only add my experiences to this bug report: I installed the Pazo
> math fonts with help of MiKTeX 2.1 package manager (MiKTeX Options ->
> Packages ->> Fonts -> PostScript Fonts -> mathpazo ) without any manual
> interaction. Just like you I get good results with dvips and pdflatex
> but have troubles with YAP. Many of the mathematical symbols are
> missing, especially in combination with amsmath package. A typical
> logbook entry can be found below. I think the problem persists with
> MiKTeX 2.2 RC1 (although the error messages may vary).