[OS X TeX] Accent bug with times

[Bruno Voisin]

Le vendredi, 20 sep 2002, à 09:51 Europe/Paris, Ralph Martin a écrit :

> Anyone else seen this apparent bug when using the times package, 
> Texshop, and Gerben Weirda's distribution? Who should I report it to?
>
>> Typeset the latex file below using tex and Ghostscript (7), rather 
>> than pdftex.
>>
>> In Section 1, note that the accent over the first "a" in Varady's 
>> name comes out in the correct place, over the a. However, in the 
>> References, it is displaced to the left, and not over the a.
>>
>> -----
>> \documentclass[10pt]{article}
>>
>> \usepackage{times}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \title{Approximate Congruence Detection}
>>
>> \maketitle
>>
>> \section{Acknowledgements}
>>
>> The authors wish to thank Tam\'as V\'arady.
>>
>> \begin{thebibliography}{00}
>>
>> \small
>>
>> \bibitem{VMC97}
>>   T.~V\'arady,
>>   Reverse engineering.
>> \end{thebibliography}
>>
>> \end{document}

I can think of no other explanation than a bad OT1 metric file 
ptmr7t.tfm, or some bug in dvips. But that remains a mystery to me.

Yes I see the same problem, when I typeset your file in TeX + 
GhostScript mode. This problem disappears with either of the following 
changes:

(1) add

	\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

before

	\usepackage{times}

(2) suppress

	\small

after

	\begin{thebibliography}{00}

(3) add

	\small

after

	\section{Acknowledgements}

Bruno Voisin

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