Bug#425460: texlive-fonts-recommended: mtmi.tfm missing

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Package: texlive-fonts-recommended
> Version: 2007-6
> Severity: normal
>
> this package used to include mtmi.tfm, mtsy.tfm, rmtmi.tfm and mtex.tfm 
> (in stable it does). These files are needed to get mathtime in pain TeX 
> with the mathtime macro's at: 
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/mathtime/

>From mathtime.tex in that directory:

%%%                        Note that these macros are USELESS without
%%%                        the MathTime fonts. These fonts are
%%%                        available from the TeXplorators Corp
%%%                        and are NOT freely-copyable (although
%%%                        inexpensive). 

This also includes the font metrics.

> Is see nothing in the changelog about the removal...

Upstream doesn't keep a changelog.  Searching mathtime in the list
archives yields:

http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2006-November/011557.html

Does that help you?

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)