[texhax] Baskervald no spaces...

Bob Tennent rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Thu Nov 14 17:38:17 CET 2013


 >|the resultant .dvi file has no spaces between words and,
 >|apparently, no kerning either... it all comes out as one big
 >|glop, even on the most minimal test, under plain TeX on the 2012
 >|TeXlive system.
 >|The minimal test file is:
 >|
 >|  \font\bvtest=ybvr8r
 >|  \bvtest
 >|  This is a test of Baskervald.
 >|  \bye

I can confirm this behaviour on a TexLive system so it isn't a
Gentoo issue.

But the baskervald package with pdflatex yields a good result so I
suspect ybvr8r isn't the right font to use for TeX.

Bob T.


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