Re: bug in pplrc8t

[Lars Hellström <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se>]

Walter Schmidt wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 22:03:20 GMT, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>>The Palatino Small Caps virtual font file `pplrc8t.vf', as
>distributed
>>from CTAN (dated 1998-Jul-07), misses the macron accent.  And this is
>>apparently true for other Adobe small caps fonts also.
>>
>>Is this a known bug?
>
>Ooops, I have never noticed this!
>
>The problems seems to be due to fontinst;
>the macron is also lacking from non-Adobe
>sc fonts, which I have made myself (rather than
>taken from CTAN.)

After some browsing of files, I think I can say that the error lies in
latin.mtx. The encoding expects the glyph for the macron accent to be named
Macronsmall in this context, and latin.mtx never says
   \setglyph{Macronsmall}
      \cscglyph{macron}
   \endsetglyph
although it says for example
   \setglyph{Cedillasmall}
      \cscglyph{cedilla}
   \endsetglyph
Therefore, since the glyph is never set, it will just be ignored when the
VPL is written.

Lars Hellström