[tex-live] oddities with the bbold fonts
Ralf Stubner
ralf.stubner at web.de
Wed Dec 20 21:19:47 CET 2006
Ralf Stubner wrote:
> There is a thread 'Problem with 11pt Blackboard Bold in TeXLive 2004'
> here (split in two parts):
>
> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2005-March/thread.html#7774
>
> Here the prolbem occurs when bbold.sty + 11pt is used.
Another more recent thread:
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2006-January/thread.html#9753
BTW, I don't think that b-bbold.mf would be enough to get the sauter
variants of bbold. On a teTeX system:
$ egrep -li blackboard /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/*
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmb.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmbxsl.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmdunh.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmfib.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbminch.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbm.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmsl.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmsltt.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmssbx.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmssdc.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmssi.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmss.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmssqi.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmssq.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmtt.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbmvtt.mf
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbold.mf
$ mktextfm bbold14
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1;
nonstopmode; input bbold14
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf bbold14
mktexmf: /var/cache/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/bbold14.mf:
successfully generated.
(/var/cache/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/bbold14.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-bbold.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbbase.mf)
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/c-cmr.mf)
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbold.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbparams.mf)
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbgreeku.mf
[...]
Note that c-cmr.mf is also used. I have no idea how to find out
systematically which files are needed.
cheerio
ralf
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