Re: bug in pplrc8t

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

Walter Schmidt wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:27:01 +0200, Lars Hellström wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Adding this to latin.mtx will create a macron accent
>which is much too low!
>
>I have also tried to add the following, which
>corresponds to what I saw for the other accents
>(acute, grave etc.):
>
>\setglyph{Macronsmall}
>   \cscaccent{macron}
>\endsetglyph
>
>\setglyph{macronsmall}
>   \glyph{Macronsmall}{1000}
>\endsetglyph
>
>This seems to help!
>Lars, could you, please, confirm that this is
>a valid fix for fontinst?

OK, I should have known better than to only compare with an
under-letter-accent. The fix is, as far as I can tell, valid and I indend
to fix latin.mtx in the same way myself (unless Ulrik Vieth has already
done that---latin.mtx is rather the part of fontinst he manages, you see).
It might be unneccessary to set macronsmall (since I can't find anywhere it
is used, unlike for example tildesmall), but at the moment it is best to
play it safe.

Lars Hellström