Bug#50247: might be solvable

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"AK" == Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@nsx.pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> writes:

   AK> Well I tested this problem with the above testit.tex and
   AK> got the same result.

Me, too.

   AK> [...]
   AK> (i.e. commented out 'G') then it seems the ligatures are
   AK> correct.

   AK> To tell the truth, I do not know so well about fonts so I
   AK> am not sure but this might be a solution.

That works, but it means that anyone typesetting a document using
the Blue Sky/AMS/Y&Y Computer Modern fonts will have problems.

You can fix this problem on the command line by specifying ``-G0''
to suppress the effects of G for that run.  A longer term fix
would be to set up another dvips configuration file that is
identical to /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.pdf except for
the G flag.

It's hard to say whether or not the default config.pdf file should
include the G flag without knowing which group is larger: those
using the Type 1 Computer Modern fonts or those using other Type 1
fonts.  No matter what you do, one of those groups will be
unhappy.


   CMC

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