[tex-k] font metric problem

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Hi,
when I use the letter "ß" in a label, the width of the "ß" is not
determined properly.  Example:

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verbatimtex
%&latex
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
etex
beginfig(-1)
  label.top (btex außen etex,(100,100));
endfig;
end;
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I get the following mpx output:
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_n1="pplr8r";
_s("au"&char223,_n1,1.00000,0.0000,0.0000);
_s("en",_n1,1.00000,13.4793,0.0000);
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The value 13.4793 should be the width of the string "au"&char223 but
it is obviously too small.

If I run mpto -tex manually I get the correct kerning in the dvi file.

The problem seems to be in dvitomp.

I played a bit with metapost's ps output file and found out that the
value 13.4793 is definitely wrong:

I replaced
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99.93024 103.2142 moveto
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by
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13.4793 0 rmoveto
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and got the same result.

Any idea?


Regards,
  Reinhard

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