Re: 8r encoding + xdvi :-(

[vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)]

On Tue May 30, Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> Using c) [pbkl.gsf+gsftopk+xdvi] some positions in the fonttable are missing
>	or broken:
> 	- the ligatures for fi and fl are just a small dot 
> 	- empty positions: 204, 205, 206, 214, 226, 227 and more ...
> 	- the accents are not correctly placed over the characters, e.g. 
> 	  position 300

>From what I can tell, the only problem with pbkl.gsf+gsftopk+xdvi that does not
also occur with pbkl.gsf+dvips+gs is that certain characters are reduced to
small dots (or empty).  This does not occur in gs 2.6.1 (more precisely,
with gsfonts-2.6.1); the difference seems to be that the definition, e.g.,
of /endash changed from

	/endash 21 -! 10bf317005b6d52e1aa2bdbf46ffb661693922e818 |-

to

	/endash{(--) Private/compose get exec} |-

In this case Private/compose seems to interfere with charpath + pathbbox
used in gsftopk.  I'll try to come up with a workaround soon.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu