TeXShop ⇒ Problem with tt typeface

[tedneeman]

Hi,

I can't get the typewrite typeface working in TeXShop. The error message says it can't load the pcrr7t font. What's that and how do I load it?

Thanks!

[frabjous]

pcr is the postscript Courier font, and 7t is a certain size, I presume. You must be loading package that loads Courier instead of the default Computer Modern typewriter font. It's hard to believe you wouldn't have it installed, but as far as "loading it"... we don't even know how you are trying to load it. A minimal working example would be helpful here.

[tedneeman]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer! I'm still trying to find my way around LaTeX... The problem turned out to be the times package, which I was using for Times New Roman. So I switched to the mathptmx package, which doesn't seem to work with the amsart document class. Why is that? It works fine if I switch to \documentclass{article}.

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\documentclass{amsart}

\usepackage{mathptmx}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item hello
\begin{itemize}
\item \tt Courier text
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

Thanks!

[frabjous]

The \tt command and the times package are both obsolete. This is explained more funny in l2tabu.

However, that is most likely not your problem, since your sample works for me even if I change mathptmx back to times. I would guess that either there is something wrong with your postscript font package installation -- reinstalling the psnfss package might help -- or you're using the wrong font encoding, and changing it with the fontenc package, e.g., \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, might help.