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In article <1jpel3INN2mn@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:

   I have the Adobe Lucida Math fonts and their .pl files but have not been
   able to get all of the math characters to print properly (I am using
   pltotf and dvips V5.495).  Can anyone offer any pointers?

You need to note that Adobe doesn't believe in the `control character'
positions, so all of the characters you'd expect to be in in the 0 -- 31
range appear instead in the 161 -- 195 range.  They also like a space in
position 32. One way to fix this is to reencode the font.  That is, change
the assignments in the Encoding vector to correspond to those in Computer
Modern math fonts.

How to do this is a function of what platform you are on - something you
don't mention.  On Unix, with PFA files you can edit the file directly,
since it is plain ASCII.  You need to change the AFM file also if you are on
NeXT using Display PostScript. 

On the PC you have to convert the compact binary PFB file to PFA form, edit,
and convert back to PFB (using PFBtoPFA and PFAtoPFB say - or just use
REENCODE directly).  If you are using the font in MS Windows, you'll have to
make up a new PFM metric file (using AFMtoPFM say).

For the Mac version, use EdMetrics to tell TeXtures the font uses `Lucida
math' encoding.  Or convert to PC format and proceed as above (using
MACtoPFA and PFBtoMAC).  Of course, you'll also have to modify the `screen
font' then (using AFMtoSCR say).  Similarly, ...

Life is MUCH easier if you get instead the Lucida New Math fonts from Y&Y.
They are all set up to have the expected encoding and come with appropriate
metric files.  Aside from that, they have TWICE as many glyphs, hence
cover not only CM, but LaTeX math symbol, and AMS math fonts as well...

Disclaimer: respondent has connections with Y&Y, obviously...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA