[texhax] Re: Ligature Issue

[Stephane Fombonne]

yeah it could be a simple local issue in this printer. Just feeding my latex file into a sed
command that transforms fi into f{}i, in order to suppress ligatures, and
that's it.

The test below is a nice example (Acrobat reader gives it nicely on the
screen but fuzzy ligatured word on paper).

Thanks anyway, and all the best with Latex.

+++ Stephane Fombonne [01/10/04 12:16 +0200]:
> 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}
>  
> *********************************************
> 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).
> ****************************************
> 
> 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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