Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:49:50 +0100 From: "J. Scott Berg" Subject: CTAN Submission -- Fix for Bakoma fonts I have uploaded a file newbakoma.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. It contains the files cmbsy10.pfb cmbsy8.pfb cmsy5.pfb cmsy8.pfb cmbsy6.pfb cmbsy9.pfb cmsy6.pfb cmsy9.pfb cmbsy7.pfb cmsy10.pfb cmsy7.pfb which unpack into a directory newbakoma/. It's purpose is to provide a simple solution to a known problem--square roots when using the Bakoma fonts get chopped off at the knees. I did nothing particularly original--I just followed the advice from the following news article (found using Deja News): > Subject: Re: Square root with Bakoma fonts > From: jhertzli@ix.netcom.com(Joseph Hertzlinger) > Date: 1996/05/12 > Message-Id: <4n3gj5$g55@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> > Newsgroups: comp.text.tex > > In lk3a@cars.mech.Virginia.EDU > (Count Dracula) writes: > > >The square root symbol in Bakoma fonts comes out chopped. > >Has anyone devised a workaround to this? > > The square roots in the symbol fonts (cmsy* and cmbsy*) in > /fonts/postscript/bakoma/pfb in some TeX archives has a bounding box > which is too small > > The square roots in the symbol fonts in /fonts/postscript/cm (at least > at SHSU and also the Walnut Creek CDROM) will not be chopped. > > Alternatively you can try editing the BBox array in each font using a > hex editor. (The second value should be about -999.) The unchopped fonts referred to seem to have fallen off the face of CTAN, so I figured I'd provide corrected ones. I took the -999 literally; somebody who actually knows what they're doing could probably make a tighter bounding box. Note that you don't even need a hex editor to do this--I just edited the 'FontBBox' comment, which is in plaintext. Maybe I should have changed something else, but this seemed to be sufficient to get things working. Let me reiterate I have no clue what I'm doing--I just applied a simple fix which seems to work. I'd welcome anyone who knows what's going on to provide a better solution. I would suggest replacing Basil's version of these fonts in fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/pfb with the corrected files, and renaming his to .orig. Note I've only fixed the pfb files; the other formats should probably be updated as well (?), but I lack the facilities and knowledge to do so. A big thanks to Basil for making these things in the first place, Deja News for preventing information from falling off the end of the net, and the CTAN folks for organizing all the TeX stuff... -Scott Berg -- J. Scott Berg email: Scott.Berg@cern.ch Work Phone: (41-22-)767-94-67 Real mail: CERN; SL Division; Bldg 30-2002 CH-1211 Geneva 23; Switzerland