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Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961127112007.2046A-100000@hpslap03.cern.ch>
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:49:50 +0100
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From: "J. Scott Berg" <Scott.Berg@CERN.CH>
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Subject: CTAN Submission -- Fix for Bakoma fonts
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I have uploaded a file newbakoma.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
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It contains the files
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cmbsy10.pfb cmbsy8.pfb cmsy5.pfb cmsy8.pfb
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cmbsy6.pfb cmbsy9.pfb cmsy6.pfb cmsy9.pfb
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cmbsy7.pfb cmsy10.pfb cmsy7.pfb
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which unpack into a directory newbakoma/.
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It's purpose is to provide a simple solution to a known
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problem--square roots when using the Bakoma fonts get chopped off at
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the knees. I did nothing particularly original--I just followed the
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advice from the following news article (found using Deja News):
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> Subject: Re: Square root with Bakoma fonts
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> From: jhertzli@ix.netcom.com(Joseph Hertzlinger)
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> Date: 1996/05/12
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> Message-Id: <4n3gj5$g55@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>
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> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
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>
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> In <Dr74pJ.KA9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lk3a@cars.mech.Virginia.EDU
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> (Count Dracula) writes:
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> >The square root symbol in Bakoma fonts comes out chopped.
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> >Has anyone devised a workaround to this?
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> The square roots in the symbol fonts (cmsy* and cmbsy*) in
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> /fonts/postscript/bakoma/pfb in some TeX archives has a bounding box
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> which is too small
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> The square roots in the symbol fonts in /fonts/postscript/cm (at least
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> at SHSU and also the Walnut Creek CDROM) will not be chopped.
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>
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> Alternatively you can try editing the BBox array in each font using a
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> hex editor. (The second value should be about -999.)
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The unchopped fonts referred to seem to have fallen off the face of
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CTAN, so I figured I'd provide corrected ones.
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I took the -999 literally; somebody who actually knows what they're
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doing could probably make a tighter bounding box. Note that you don't
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even need a hex editor to do this--I just edited the 'FontBBox'
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comment, which is in plaintext. Maybe I should have changed something
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else, but this seemed to be sufficient to get things working. Let me
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reiterate I have no clue what I'm doing--I just applied a simple fix
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which seems to work. I'd welcome anyone who knows what's going on to
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provide a better solution.
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I would suggest replacing Basil's version of these fonts in
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fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/pfb with the corrected files, and renaming
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his to <file>.orig.
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Note I've only fixed the pfb files; the other formats should probably
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be updated as well (?), but I lack the facilities and knowledge to do
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so.
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A big thanks to Basil for making these things in the first place, Deja
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News for preventing information from falling off the end of the net,
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and the CTAN folks for organizing all the TeX stuff...
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-Scott Berg
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--
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J. Scott Berg email: Scott.Berg@cern.ch
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Work Phone: (41-22-)767-94-67 Real mail: CERN; SL Division; Bldg 30-2002
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CH-1211 Geneva 23; Switzerland
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