[3665] in SIPB bug reports
problem with dvips and \dot x command
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Apr 14 12:23:45 1993
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 93 12:24:41 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@GZA.COM>
To: carla@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: aanna@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: carla@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 9 Apr 93 18:51:56 -0400 <9304092251.AA22953@mickey-mouse>
From: carla@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 18:51:56 -0400
This is a feedback to whoever hacked dvips. The \dot x
command is not coming out right. This should give a dot over x indicating
the derivative of x. But the dvips program gives a bar below x. The
same file gives a correct output with dvi2ps (with computer roman fonts).
The user who sent it was "aanna"
I cannot duplicate this problem, so I guess we need more details in
order to determine what the problem is and fix it.
I created this file:
**
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
$\dot x$
\end{document}
**
and then latex'ed it with /usr/athena/bin/latex on an IBM RT. I then
produced three PostScript files from the DVI file, using
/usr/athena/bin/dvi2ps, /mit/sipb/rtbin/dvi2ps, and
/mit/sipb/rtbin/dvips. All three PostScript files, when printed,
contained an italicized 'x' with a dot over it.
It is possible that the user was actually trying to a PostScript font,
rather than CMR, and specified the incorrect documentstyle option to
get the font, i.e., specified the dvi2ps font option instead of the
dvips font option, which is different. For example, if the user
specifies "timrom" instead of "times", dvi2ps will produce correct
output while dvips will not.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Athena volunteer user consultant
Member, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@GZA.COM
