Font problem with TL'20

Paulo Ney de Souza pauloney at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 04:29:11 CET 2020


Awesome, thanks! David. That does solve the problem.

Is it possible/feasible to trace what other packages are in the same
situation?

Paulo Ney

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:11 PM David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> In a local copy change line 91 from
>
>   \def\zw at isbnfont{\usefont{OT1}{phv}{mc}{n}\fontsize{\zw at isbnfsize
> }{\zw at isbnfsize}\selectfont}}
>
> to
>
>   \def\zw at isbnfont{\usefont{OT1}{phv}{c}{n}\fontsize{\zw at isbnfsize
> }{\zw at isbnfsize}\selectfont}}
>
> deleting the `m`  the interpretation of mc has changed, normally it will
> manage to default to the right thing with a warning but here the condensed
> form needs c explicitly otherwise it falls back on the  medium m and the
> letters are too wide.
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 19:36, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The small file below, used to work fine
>>
>> ----
>> \documentclass{report}
>>
>> \usepackage{ean13isbn}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>> \EANisbn[ISBN=978-80-7340-097-2]
>> \end{document}
>> ----
>>
>> used to produce a fine bar-code (and numbers on top fine) in TL-18 and
>> TL-19.... but in TL'20 one gets:
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> with a strange error message:
>>
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1phv.fd)
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/phv/mc/n' undefined
>> (Font)              using `OT1/phv/m/n' instead on input line 6.
>> LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults
>> substituted.
>>
>> which is different from TL-18 and TL-19:
>>
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1phv.fd
>> File: ot1phv.fd 2001/06/04 scalable font definitions for OT1/phv.) [1]
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on what is going on?
>>
>> Paulo Ney
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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