[tex-live] Missing Ligatures after 'dvips -Ppdf'

Ulrike Fischer news3 at nililand.de
Mon May 4 12:03:17 CEST 2009


Am Mon, 4 May 2009 11:08:03 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:

> Character shifting CANNOT break ligatures. 

It does in this case. Ligatures are characters and if you can loose
a char by character shifting it is naturally also possible that a
ligature is affected. The ff-ligature is (in the kpfonts) in font
jkpmne at position '013. You only need to run nfssfont to generate a
table for this font and compare the result of dvips -G1 with dvips
-G0 to see that most of the chars in the first two lines are
missing. The ffi is also affected, while fi (which is not in the
problematic region) works fine. 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 



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