Bug 49890

Created attachment 24827 [details]
latex file

Do you know when this last worked?

Hello.  I don't when/if it worked last, actually.  I'm pretty sure I've made 
this work in the past, but I'm not sure if was on my intel machine [on which 
I've had pretty much each of the RH versions, over time] or on a solaris box 
that I used before switching to RH.

Since it's such a simple test-case, one might hope for help from some of the 
Tex/LaTeX discussion groups, but I figured that you folks at RH would have a 
special interest in getting this to work, since having a solid LaTeX, 
combining all the various components, is something that one disto can offer 
over another.  [Note: the test works perfectly in my friend's debian box.]

Let me know if I can help.  I did a _lot_ of web surfing to try to find an 
answer, but I didn't turn up much that made sense to me.

Dan.

Okay, which version of Debian does your friend have?

(If I can compare a working teTeX with a broken one I stand a better chance of
fixing it.)

Sorry, the person who told me that it worked on debian is taking some time off
and cannot be reached.  (A new baby arrived!).  However, I found the email, and
have pasted the guts of it below.  It _might_ help. If not, I probably can't do
much more investigation on the debian end.  You folks must have a box with
Debian on it, to check for these sorts of issues, right?  :-)

OK, jokes aside, the below is what my friend sent, from a Debian box:

$ latex caro.tex 
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(caro.tex
LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/mathtime/mathtime.sty)
No file caro.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/mathtime/my1mtt.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/mathtime/my2mtt.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/mathtime/my3mtt.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ptm.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ts1ptm.fd) [1] (caro.aux) )
Output written on caro.dvi (1 page, 276 bytes).
Transcript written on caro.log.

$ dvips caro
This is dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2001.07.24:1622' -> caro.ps
<texc.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro>. <rmtmi.pfb>[1] 

$ locate rmtmi.
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/mathtime/rmtmi.afm
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/yandy/mathtime/rmtmi.tfm

$ dpkg -S /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/mathtime/rmtmi.afm
tetex-base: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/mathtime/rmtmi.afm

Okay, it's a newer dvipsk (5.86d vs 5.86).  Perhaps it's that.

(I can't even get this to work with TeXLive..)

A suggested work-around: use

\usepackage{amsfonts}

instead of

\usepackage{mathtime}