LyX, LaTeX, PS, PDF
Jason Stephenson
jason at sigio.com
Sun Oct 27 15:41:13 EST 2002
It's not a problem. It is called an "fi" ligature and it is what TeX is
supposed to do by default. It is supposed to make reading a document
easier. What surprises me is that it went away when you ran dvips
without -Ppdf. I don't generally use dvips. Nor do I use LyX.
Since I discovered PDFlib, I haven't been using TeX much, either.
bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, at 1:39am, mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu wrote:
>
>>I've always found the LyX interface somewhat clumsy.
>
>
> It is, no question about it. However, it (so far) lets me write text docs
> very quickly and easily, while generating nice printed output, and without
> needing to learn anything. ;-)
>
>
>>>However, there was now a new problem: Every sequence of the characters
>>>"fi" in my document had been replaced a symbol that looked like a cross
>>>between cursive "f" and "l" symbols. (Huh?!?!)
>>>
>>>I went back and dropped the "-Ppdf" from the "dvips" command, and that
>>>seems to have fixed the above, um, behavior, while still keeping the PDF
>>>file looking good.
>>
>>Huh. That's bizzare. What does your config.pdf file look like
>>(/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.pdf on my system)?
>
>
> Removing comments and blanklines, it says this:
>
> m 6000000
> o
> D 8000
> p +bsr.map
> p +bsr-interpolated.map
> p +hoekwater.map
> R 300 600
> G
> h tex.pro
> h alt-rule.pro
>
> I really don't care, it's just such a *weird* problem that I'm kinda
> curious as to how it could happen at all. :-)
>
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