[texhax] Ligature Issue

Stephane Fombonne s.fombonne at laposte.net
Fri Oct 1 12:16:34 CEST 2004


hi all!

I'm still having this Times issue with ligatures.

I've tried Morten's test file, 
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
\usefont{T1}{ptm}{m}{n} Works fine!
\showoutput
\end{document}
 
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=pdflatex 2004.8.15)  1 OCT 2004 12:09
**test.tex
(./test.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/minimal.cls
Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
) (./test.aux)
\openout1 = `test.aux'.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 2.
LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for T1+ptm on input line 3.
 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd
File: t1ptm.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for T1/ptm.
)

Completed box being shipped out [1]
\vbox(578.15999+0.0)x469.75499
.\glue 0.0
.\vbox(578.15999+0.0)x469.75499
..\vbox(0.0+0.0)x469.75499
...\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil
...\hbox(0.0+0.0)x469.75499
..\glue 0.0
..\glue(\lineskip) 0.0
..\vbox(578.15999+0.0)x469.75499, glue set 568.06007fil
...\glue(\topskip) 3.2201
...\hbox(6.7799+0.09991)x469.75499, glue set 403.0653fil
....\hbox(0.0+0.0)x20.0
..../ptmr8t/W
....\kern-0.79994
..../ptmr8t/o
..../ptmr8t/r
..../ptmr8t/k
..../ptmr8t/s
....\glue 2.5 plus 1.49998 minus 0.59998
..../ptmr8t/^^\ (ligature fi)
..../ptmr8t/n
..../ptmr8t/e
..../ptmr8t/!
....\penalty 10000
....\glue(\parfillskip) 0.0 plus 1.0fil
....\glue(\rightskip) 0.0
...\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil
...\glue 0.0
..\glue(\baselineskip) 0.0
..\hbox(0.0+0.0)x469.75499

{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map} (./test.aux) ) 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 53 strings out of 95460
 718 string characters out of 1190704
 44458 words of memory out of 1000001
 3120 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
 6362 words of font info for 16 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
 14i,4n,11p,120b,151s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s
 7 PDF objects out of 300000
 0 named destinations out of 131072
 0 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536
{/usr/share/texmf/dvip
s/psnfss/8r.enc}</usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmr8a.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 11534 bytes).
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The result is fine on my printer, but on my work's printer, it's fuzzy :
The thing is that with pdflatex I've got a fuzzy line, and with dvips -Ppdf
G0 I've got only the word 'fine' going wrong... 

I've also checked the Acrobat reader font properties. It is also fine...
(defined as type 1 custom).

Strange ...

Is there a way to disable ligatures "fi", apart from doing
"This works f{}ine" ? (I mean an option in the preamble or in the fonts
files)?
I would like to stick to roman style (iso sans serif, like helvetica)

Cheers!



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