Bug#293179: tetex-bin: Bug in font pcrr7tn with dvips: Backticks wrong
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-25
Severity: important
I use the pslatex package to print Linux Seminar courseware.
This is heavily dependent on the correct rendering of backticks.
The backticks are rendered correctly if viewed in xdvi
or PDF generated by pdflatex, whereas they are
rendered incorrectly when using dvips.
Alas, I cant switch to pslatex because I would have to convert
2000+ pages and hundreds of images to pdflatex.
This bug concerns font pcrr7tn which is used in the pslatex-Style.
The bold-face variant works fine.
This bug is reproducable:
# cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
entering extended mode
(./nfssfont.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, german, ngerman,
nohyphena
tion, loaded.
(./article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(./size10.clo))
No auxiliary output files.
**********************************************
* NFSS font test program version <v2.0e>
*
* Follow the instructions
**********************************************
Name of the font to test = pcrr7tn
Now type a test command (\help for help):)
*\table
*\punct
*\bye
[1]
Output written on nfssfont.dvi (1 page, 7240 bytes).
Transcript written on nfssfont.log.
# dvips nfssfont.dvi
# gv nfssfont.ps
----> WRONG!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.25 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-25 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2c-3 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
* tetex-bin/cnf_name:
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: german[=austrian-alte_Rechtschreibung], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
* tetex-bin/groupperm: false
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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