[pdftex] Re: [tex-live] problems with non-final sigma

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

> "TA" == Tigran Aivazian writes:
> 
>  TA> Can someone please suggest a proper solution, i.e. how to force
>  TA> \textgreek{s} on its own to produce a non-final sigma? Thank you.
> 
> find out what is the <slot number> of the "non-final sigma" glyph, and
> use \char<slot number>
> (you may use testfont.tex to pring all glyph slots)

I wish it was that easy. Yes, that was the first thing I tried but it 
still produced the final sigma. But the same \char'163 followed by another 
letter produced the non-final sigma.

(I didn't know about testfont.tex in the past so I just used od -x output 
of dvi file).

Kind regards
Tigran