Re: tex font problems
Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> > \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else
> > moticed this?
>
> As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX constructions.
> I made a silly .tex file with these lines:
>
> =====begin junk.tex====================
> backslash quote curly-brace a curly-brace is \"{a}.
> backslash a a is \aa.
> \vfill \eject \end
> =====end junk.tex====================
>
> Then I ran
> tex junk
> dvips -o morejunk junk
> ghostview morejunk
>
> and the characters showed up just as expected.
Well, they don't on my instalation :-) I tested just the same. But my junk.log
contains the two lines:
Missing character: There is no ^^e4 in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ^^e5 in font cmr10!
Thomas Schiex wrote:
> So the following text will be Ok (but would'nt w/o the fontenc package).
>
> ---
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> \begin{document}
>
>
>
> \end{document}
> ---
>
> (NOTE: You will probably get an error message telling that dcr1000.mf is not
> found: the Debian LaTeX DC font installation is FAULTY here (a mismatch
So I did.
> between the version of the DC fonts and the version of the font description
> files). Try getting the last version of the DC fonts on a CTAN archive (see
> below). You'll find them in
>
> fonts/dc/ready-mf/*
>
> (these files should replace all the files that are in
> /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/dc/ )
hmm, I have no /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/dc/ directory. But the
status of mfdcfnt is ok installed, Version: 1.0-1. However, I created one
and placed the new fonts there.
>
> fonts/dc/tfm/*
>
> (these files should relplace all files in
> /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/dc/)
OK, that directory excisted, so I updated it.
And, now your latex example works just fine (using ISO characters in the latex
file), but Susan G. Kleinmann's junk.tex still wount give me any umlaut
characters.
>
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