[OS X TeX] Strange ligatures
Signups
signups at norvelle.org
Tue Feb 20 13:44:41 CET 2007
Sorry for the bother, it was my error: it turns out I hadn't reset the
document font to Times New Roman, and was still using FreeSans. The
ligatures disappear in TNR.
Thanks for your quick response,
Erik Norvelle
Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2007, at 10:43 pm, Signups wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> Your suggestions have enabled me to resolve all but one of the weird
>> issues that have cropped up regarding fonts.
>> As you'll recall, I'm mixing the Porson Greek font with Times New
>> Roman as my main document font. The one issue that remains is that
>> Times New Roman suddenly begins to render with ligatures, in
>> particular between the "s" and the "t". However, it only does this
>> in section and subsection headers, where font bolding is turned on.
>
> This seems weird indeed; the Times New Roman that I have does not even
> include such a ligature. My guess is that something about the way your
> font/language commands are defined is actually leading to a different
> font altogether being used. But to figure out what's wrong, it would
> be helpful to see a minimal document that illustrates the strange
> behavior. Can you pare it down to a single heading and just the
> essential packages for the document to compile, and then let us see
> what's there?
>
> JK
>
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