TeX fonts in Mathematica

[Martijn van Manen]

Hello there,

I am having the following problem. I try to have Mathematica
understand that I want to use publicly available TeX fonts.
This is because I like to use Mathematica to produce pictures
for my TeX files. It would be nice if I were able to
use the same font as in my TeX document.

So what I do is to make Mathematica read my ../share/texmf/fonts/type1
and all of its subdirectories, and do the same for
the AFM files.

Now I would want to refer to say the "putb8a.pfa" file by putting
the FontFamily of the StyleForm to "putb8a" but this
doesnot work.

Maybe someone could adress the following issues:
- Is my objective realizable
- What is the syntax of the PSres.upr file and how can I use the
"human readable" names of a type 1 font

Any help will be appreciated.

GRTZ,

Martijn

[Jens-Peer Kuska]

Hi,

a) you can't teach Mathematica to use the PostScript versions
of Computer Modern. Computer Modern has a complete different
encoding
b) you refer to the Berry names of the fonts and these names are
not used by any other system than TeX.
Mathematica use the true font names i.e. "Times-Bold" instead of
ptmb*
c) if you have something like the Adobe Type manager you can
install the Type1 fonts on you operating system and
the fonts can be used directly. On unix systems you may
intall the type 1 fonts for your X11 environment and use
the fonts
d) You can do just the opposite, and use the Mathematica fonts
with TeX
e) you may use the times.sty package (best with MathTime) to get
the same base font in TeX and hopefully nobody will see that
you have a Mathematica alpha in your axes labels

Regards
Jens