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From: changj@cs.rpi.edu (John Chang)
Subject: help with msxm, msym, msam, msbm fonts
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Date: 16 Jun 91 23:22:35 GMT
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Hi,

Someone posted that msxm and msym fonts have been replaced by msam and 
msbm fonts.  I have a dvi file that used to complain about missing msxm and
msym fonts (which I couldn't find anywhere) when I ran it through xtex.
So I got msam and msbm and renamed it msxm and msym respectively and also
changed `font_identifier' in these files appropriately.  Now xtex no longer
complains about missing fonts, but the output doesn't look right (as compared
to the hard-copy output through postscript laserwriter - the output is 
supposed to contain all kinds of symbols: <,>,>=,~,etc).  What do I have to 
do other than what I have already done and putting these fonts in the 
appropriate font directory?  Also, how does tex (when creating a dvi file)
decide what font to use?  There are references to msxm and msym fonts in 
the .dvi file (that why I renamed the font files) but not .tex file.  I'm 
really a novice at this, so any help, suggestion, explanation, would be 
appreciated.  Thanks.