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cae@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Charles Elliott) writes:

>I've just installed Windows3.1 and WfW2.0 on my PC to find that the
>fonts in the equation edior are not working. In particular I can't get
>Integral signs etc. The fonts Fences and MT??? (can't remember) have 
>installed themselves as TrueType fonts, but when I go into fonts in the
>Windows control panel, examples of these fonts do not show up. I am using
>the HP Deskjet 500 printer driver as supplied with 3.1

>When the equation editor loads, I get the message '.. fonts are not available
>on currently selected printer ..' but no amount of reinstalling the editor
>works. On the other machines I use, one is configured to use an Epson LQ-2500
>and the fonts work fine (and the sample text shows up in control panel) and
>the other machine has ATM and works fine.


Please:  Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear:  

     I am not a Microsoft-basher, and my opinion is that much of
     the flamage against Microsoft running around usenet these
     days is uncalled-for and immature in both tone and content.
     (And yes, some of the complaints have legitimate foundations,
     but the valid points get lost in the noise.)

Having said that, would someone from Microsoft reading this newsgroup please
explain why, after several maintenance releases of WfW, this problem is still
with us?  And could that kind soul please provide some assurances that it
will disappear the next time a new set of disks is produced?

To get back to Mr. Elliot's problem: the TT fonts FENCES and MT EXTRA were
installed in a manner which makes them invisible to the application.  The
solution is to open MAIN -> CONTROL PANEL -> FONTS, and:

  1.  Select all fonts with names containing the strings FENCES and MT EXTRA.
      Delete these fonts, but do not check the box which offers to erase the
      font files from the disk.

  2.  Go to the ADD... dialog.  Point the dialog to the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
      directory (or wherever your SYSTEM subdirectory is located).

  3.  Select the FENCES and MT EXTRA TrueType fonts.  Depending on the
      history of your system there may be other font files of these names
      present, but you need the TrueType flavor.  Click OK to install
      the fonts back into Windows.

That's it.  Note that reinstalling WfW or PowerPoint will reintroduce the
problem; just re-execute the above sequence to fix it again.

Joe Morris