[OS X TeX] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

[Will Robertson]

On 22 Mar 2005, at 2:07 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

> using HelveticaNeue (came with OSX) was fine.
>
> But using Helvetica (from OSX system fonts) just won't work:
>
> - when I have converted the .dfont to .pfb with FontLab the diaeresis 
> of the german Umlaute (äöü) are too far to the right.
>
> - when I have converted the .dfont to .pfb with FontForge the 
> diaeresis of the german Umlaute (äöü) are OK, but all other elements 
> like Macron, Cedilla or Ogonek are too far to the left (!).
>
>
> Anybody knows this strange behaviour?

No...

> And even better what to do to avoid this mess??

\usepackage{helvet}? (Does it have enough glyphs? I would have thought 
so...)
XeTeX?

Fonts can be very annoying :)

Will

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