* Christopher M. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-03 07:33] wrote:
> I recently wanted to find and install the Baskerville font on my system (I
> saw it in a book and liked it). After much digging, I found it as part of the
> psfonts on CTAN. There were two dirs: baskerbe and baskervi. Not knowing the
this are only the metrics in tex format, you need the pfa/pfb files which actually
contain the font shapes
i think you would have to buy them from adobe
> difference (what is the difference?) I downloaded and installed them both.
>
> The install I did was as follows, because I simply don't know any better: the
> directory I downloaded contained ./tex ./tfm ./vf directories. I coppied the
> files in each of these directories to what looked like the appropriate place
> in my tex tree: vf files went in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/baskerbe and
> baskervi, tfm files went in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ ... , fd files
> went into /usr/share/tex/latex/psnfss. I then catted the ???.map files onto
> my /etc/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map file, did a texconfig rehash, put
> \usepackage{baskerbe} into my preamble, and viewed the postscript.
>
> The font looks positively horrible. None of the characters are spaced
> correctly, none of them are sized correctly, and the font itself looks
> nothing like baskerville. What did I do wrong? What do I need to do to
it is not baskerville, it is a replacemnet font from ghostscript
> install these fonts? I've looked at fntguide, but if the answer is there then
> I don't see it
>
--
ronny
