[OS X TeX] Strange Behavior With Lucida Font

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.02.2005 um 04:14 schrieb Brian Powell:

> Any suggestions or ideas as to why the entire document renders
> perfectly except for "ff"?

You're probably using the Lucida fonts from Java. One of them is 
definitely faulty! To see it yourself I recommend to open Textedit and 
the Character Palette. Choose in Textedit repeatedly the Lucida Sans 
variants and pick off Character Palette the ligatures (you'll find them 
at U+FB00). (It might work too to copy the correct line from LucidaSans 
Regular and change it to the other variants.)

What you'll see is:

-ff-fi-fl-ffi-ffl-  in LucidaSans Regular
-fi-fl-ffi-ffl--    in LucidaSans Oblique
-ff-fi-fl-ffi-ffl-  in LucidaSans DemiBold
--fi-fl---          in LucidaSans DemiBold Oblique

Some glyphs are missing -- something normal. But for the faulty 
LucidaSans Oblique ff has gone with some wind and the stack of glyphs 
slid down filling the gap! So you get fi instead of ff, fl instead of 
fi, ffi instead of fl, ffl instead of ffi, and nothing instead of ffl.

In TeX you can see this too running 'latex nfssfont' giving the font's 
name (hlsr8t) and choosing \table\bye ...

You can cure this with fontinst. This weekend I corrected my 
installation script (making TrueType fonts available in TeX as 
PostScript fonts) to repair this mistake.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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