Bug#222682: tetex-bin: dvipdfm makes big delimiters disappear in this document

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Ken Shan <ken@digitas.harvard.edu> schrieb:

> On 2003-12-04T11:02:29+0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Same here. Could you try to make a minimal LaTeX document, so that
>> analysis of the problem would be easier?
>
> Hello,
>
> The problem seems to be triggered by the class file I am using,
> sig-alternate.cls (for ACM proceedings).  A minimal test document is at
>
>     http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ccshan/debbugs/dvipdfm/cwmin.tex

Thank you very much. In fact it was easy to minimize the class (the main
problem was in the first 10 non-comment lines). So the real minimal
document is:

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\renewcommand\normalsize{\fontsize{9pt}{10.5pt}\selectfont}


\begin{document}
Big delimiters: $\bigl[ \bigr]$ End of test.
\end{document}

With pdflatex, the braces are shown, with latex->dvipdfm not.

Hm. The README file for dvipdfm says 

,----
|    Limitations (at present):
| 
|         ...
|       - All instances of the same Type1 font must have the same encoding.
`----

Do you have type1 variants of the cm fonts installed, like cm-super or
lmfonts? I have, but I have just moved /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10cm-super
out of the way, ran update-updmap and updmap, and the behavior didn't
change. However, I'm never sure with font stuff.


Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie