[OS X TeX] LaTeXiT 1.3.1(Panther version) font question

Pierre Chatelier pierre.chatelier at club-internet.fr
Wed Jul 20 20:05:03 CEST 2005


Hi,


>> I have identified the problem
>> In LatexIt, to compute the baseline of the equations, I use  
>> Maarten's magical snippet that uses boxes. And it seems that in  
>> these boxes, the fonts are not loaded.
>>
> Nonsense ;-)
>
Yes, it seems that as soon as LaTeX becomes more complicated than  
programming LaTeXit, I am far less confident ;-)



> Add
>
> %\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> %\usepackage 
> [expert,mathitalic2,slantedgreek,vargreek,lucidascale,nofontinfo] 
> {lucidabr}
> (your font inclusion package goes here, I tried the above, and that  
> works, for me)
>
> % this selects the font.
> \normalsize\selectfont
>

Yes, adding \normalsize\selectfont just before the box declaration  
makes it work; great ! Do I really need \normalsize ? Isn't  
\selectfont sufficient ?


> The issue is that normally the font selection is finished by a call  
> to \selectfont, which is called in \begin{document}, well after we  
> have filled our boxes.
>
Thank you very much for the bonus explanation, that makes the problem  
very clear. What would be LaTeXiT without you ? :-)

Regards,

Pierre

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