[4326] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Bug in SIPB's psfonts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Tue Jan 11 14:02:59 1994
To: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Cc: mkgray@MIT.EDU, rjbarbal@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 11 Jan 94 12:19:31 -0500.
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 13:58:13 EST
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
> Hi... I'm told you're our SIPB TeX experts now. Well, I've got a doozy
> for you.
> It looks like if you use the ncs.sty file, the \sl font doesn't work
> correctly. Example: if you take the following file, and latex it, dvips
> complains about a nonexistant font, "rpncro". Now, ncs.sty seems to
> define \sl to use the the font "pncro" --- I have no idea where the 'r'
> is coming from.
> However, if you use the times.sty file, which looks almost identical to
> the ncs.sty file except for yhe different font names, \sl works fine.
> Could you take a look into this? I'd really appreciate it....
> - Ted
(some debugging stuff from Ted deleted)
This was a bug with the /mit/sipb/lib/tex/ps/psfonts.map file, which
lists mappings of TeX font names to "raw" PostScript fonts. We were
using the file shipped with our current version of dvips.
I added an entry for rpncro, so things should be OK after the next
propagation (ie, tomorrow). I compared it to our previous
psfonts.map, and no other fonts were missing except Lubalin and
Souvenir families (which don't exist on HP printers).
If anyone wants information about what the hell I'm talking about,
just ask me. =)
--bert
