PCTeX Talk

[gvokalek]

I've drafted installation instructions for MTPRO2 when used with
Y&Y tex.

I'm not sure if this BB will bugger-up the format, and I don't see a button for file attachments, so please download it from:

http://www.causalproductions.com/JOBS/MTPRO2/mtpro2_yy_install.txt

I will now try to insert it here, so let's see what happens!

Please feel free to improve it.

george.

[murray]

[murray]

Some comments on George's very useful detailed installation instructions:


0. I see no reason to specify only command-line methods for making directories within the Y&Y directory tree, or for copying or moving files from the extracted archive into such directories. Surely Windows Explorer's usual functionality (navigating to directories, right-clicking to make a new folder there, copying/moving files) suffices. Of course there's no harm in giving the command-line directions as an alternative to the Explorer mousing.

1. One thing I had not had time to include in my original draft installation instructions is what George's do include -- the parts about checking Y&Y's search paths for the various types of files by using the DVIWindo menu item PREFERENCES ->ENVIRONMENTS and then ->TEXFONTS or ->PSFONTS or ->LATEX, depending on which type of file is at issue.

However, it's also worth saying that one can also, instead find these values by opening dviwindo.ini (from c:\windows).

2. In George's STEP 3 (installing TFM files) I disagree about using the location

YANDY\FONTS\TFM\TEXNANSI\

(I'm giving paths just starting in the main YANDY directory). That directory ought, in principle, be reserved for tfm's of fonts that actually use Y&Y's TeXnAnsi encoding. However, the MathTimePro2 fonts do NOT use that encoding. So it would be much more logical to put the tmf's in:

YANDY\FONTS\TFM\NONTEXT

In fact, it's much neater in any event to put them in a subdirectory of NONTEXT (or of TEXNANSI, if one insists on putting them there): If a path is specified in Y&Y's environment with a terminal \, then this means to search not just that directory, but all first-order subdirectories of it. So my strong recommendation is to use something like:

YANDYTEX\FONTS\TFM\NONTEXT\tfm-mt2

This not only makes clear that the TeXnAnsi encoding is NOT involved, but also readily isolates these tfm's from others, should the need arise to update them at any time. [In fact, the Y&Y-supplied structure of the NONTEXT directory in fact includes a bunch of such subdirectories: tfm-ams, tfm-cm, tfm-ltx, tfm-mt (for Y&Y systems that came with the old MathTime fonts as distributed by Y&Y), etc.]

3. It may be confusing to refer to the main Y&Y directory as YANDYTEX, since at least in the distribution I'm using, the main Y&Y directory has a subdirectory tree with top named YANDYTEX (this directory includes the Y&Y binaries). That's why I used "YANDY" in my detailed version of the instructions. (But perhaps in some versions of Y&Y, the top-level directory was really "YANDYTEX"??? I do recall that in very early versions it was "Y&Y" but that was later changed to "yandy".)

[murray]