Bug#234550: missing mathpi support files
Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net> schrieb:
> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2-5.1
>
> The mathpi package in tetex-extra is broken at present. Documents that
> include the \mathscr, \mathbb, or \mathfrak commands from mathpi.sty will
> compile without error, but the corresponding fonts won't be found or
> displayed in the DVI file, even though the font outline files mh[1-6].pfb are
> correctly installed in fonts/type1/yandy/mathpi.
>
> The problem is that tetex is missing the supporting .afm files,
> fonts/afm/yandy/mathpi/mh[1-6].afm. I downloaded these files from
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/151-200/158, and
> installed them locally:
We can't incorporate these files. They are subject to
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/license.txt, which is for sure not free (and could
probably not even go to non-free):
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| software may not be exported or re-exported to Cuba, Iran, Iraq,
| Libya, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria or any country to which the United
| States embargoes goods. In addition, Adobe software may not be
| distributed to persons on the Table of Denial Orders, the Entity List,
| or the List of Specially Designated Nationals.
`----
I even doubt that you may legally use them with TeX, but I am not a
lawyer:
,----
| If the software is designed for use with an application software
| product (the "Host Application") published by Adobe, Adobe grants you
| a non-exclusive license to use such software with the Host
| Application only, provided you possess a valid license from Adobe for
| the Host Application.
`----
This sounds as if any file that can be used with Adobe Software as a
"Host Application" may _only_ be used with this host application,
i.e. not with TeX.
> $ ls /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/mathpi
> mh1.afm mh2.afm mh3.afm mh4.afm mh5.afm mh6.afm
>
> With these extra files installed, mathpi works correctly.
If you have any other source for afm files for these fonts, we would be
glad to incorporate them.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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