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I want to compile my PNAS journal document. I am unable to do so. Since I am new to this latex community I am not much aware of the packages that need to be installed.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm hv
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation v for hv.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/dvips/skak/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input hv
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf hv
! I can't find file `hv'.
<*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input hv

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input hv

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: hv.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input hv' failed to make hv.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font \footnotefont=hv at 6.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
l.165 \font\footnotefont\frutigermed at 6pt

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Camellia
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This PNAS style file (from http://www.pnas.org/site/authors/LaTex.xhtml) has a rather old fashioned view of fonts. The problem is the file PNASTWOF.STY. In the sample file this is listed as an optional package, so the simplest thing to do is just comment out that line in the sample, i.e. add % in front of that line so you get

...
%% ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL STYLE FILES
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
%\usepackage{pnastwoF}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsfonts,amsmath}
...

The file will then compile using standard LaTeX fonts.

If instead you want to try to complie the sample as is, then look in the file PNASTWOF.STY. There you will see a comment

%% You may need to rename these fonts to match the
%% names of the .tfm files on your system.

It is not quite as bad as that though. Essentially there are two sections where Dvipsone Names should be commented and Karl Berry Names uncommented:

Firstly change the commenting (% characters) in the Times Roman section to

%% Times-Roman

%% Dvipsone Names:
%\def\timesroman{tir}
%\def\timesbold{tib}
%\def\timesitalic{tii}
%\def\timesbolditalic{tibi}


%% Karl Berry Names:
\def\timesroman{ptmr8t}
\def\timesbold{ptmb8t}
\def\timesitalic{ptmri8t}
\def\timesbolditalic{ptmbi8t}

Next change the commenting in the Helevtica section to

%% Helvetica
%------------------
%% Dvipsone
%\def\helvetica{hv}
%\def\helveticaoblique{hvo}
%\def\helveticaboldoblique{hvbo}
%\def\helveticabold{hvb}


%% Karl Berry Names:
\def\helvetica{phvr}
\def\helveticaoblique{phvro}
\def\helveticaboldoblique{phvbo}
\def\helveticabold{phvb}

This was sufficient for me to compile the sample document from the site.

Andrew Swann
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