[texhax] texhax Digest, Vol 2016, Issue 126

[Murray Eisenberg]

On Jun 10, 2016, at 2:04 PM, texhax-request at tug.org wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:23:29 -0400
> From: Bob Tennent <rdt at cs.queensu.ca <mailto:rdt at cs.queensu.ca>>
> To: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu <mailto:murray at math.umass.edu>>
> Cc: <texhax at tug.org <mailto:texhax at tug.org>>
> Subject: Re: [texhax] Using Adobe Times, Helvetica, Courier, and Small
> 	Caps with LaTeX
> Message-ID: <20160610162329.YQsOn93xDmVO%rdt at cs.queensu.ca <mailto:rdt at cs.queensu.ca>>
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>> |    (4) Adobe Small Caps for text small caps (along with bold); and
> 
> I just remembered that Walter Schmidt did this many years
> ago; get ptms.zip at
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> 
> http://cq131a.de/fonts.html <http://cq131a.de/fonts.html>


Yes, the package ptms you cite solved the problem. Thank you!

In the preamble, I used just:

  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage{textcomp}
  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptmx}  %% instead of ptm
  \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet}
  \usepackage{courier}

However, as the package had no proper pmts.map file, I created 

   ~/Library/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/adobe/xtimes/ptms.map

by translating the contents of its ptms.all to become:

ptmrc8r  Times-RomanSC       "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ptmrc8a.pfb
ptmbc8r  Times-BoldSC        "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ptmbc8a.pfb
ptmrij8r Times-ItalicOsF     "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ptmrij8a.pfb
ptmbij8r Times-BoldItalicOsF "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <ptmbij8a.pfb

(The package enables Adobe Old Style digits as well as Adobe Times Roman Small Caps if one has the former .pfb’s and uses in the preamble
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptmj} instead of \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptmx}. )

It would be nice if ptms were made more visibly available, i.e., at CTAN.
 
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