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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: dvi2ps
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Date: 18 Sep 88 03:56:26 GMT
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In article <3909@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@blitz (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
>The am* font family are the American Mathematical Society fonts.  They are
>available from AMS in Rhode Island.  If you don't want to spend any money
>you should be able to change all of the references to the am fonts to the
>freely distributed cm (Computer Modern) fonts that come with TeX.

The am fonts are not AMS fonte. The AMS wants nothing to do with these fonts.
am stands for almost modern, the predecessor to TeX's computer modern. I'm
not sure why your driver is looking for these fonts, but it seems to me to
be one of two things: (1) your TeX is hopelessly out of date and still uses
the old am fonts and the paths that you have for fonts don't match what the
driver wants, or (2) the driver has hard-coded into it the am fonts for
some reason (perhaps some font substitution mechanism). Don't bother the
AMS asking for am fonts. They might still have them, but they won't
distribute them.

-dh

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