On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:29:12PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > I still have access to a Debian sarge system, and the file location there > is /usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/EC.enc while for Debian testing the file > location is /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/enc/dvips/base/ec.enc. > > As part of a different investigation off-list with Hazen, I recently saw the > results of his documentation build on the dedicated Debian system (sarge?) > that he uses to build our documentation for the website. Apparently, that > system still uses EC.enc. You can see the results of that doc build at the > newly uploaded > http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.0/, and the > "Geoff" ligatures look OK to my eyes. > > >From other off-list discussions with Hazen, I think it is going to be a > while before he reinstalls that system with modern Debian so probably the > best way to deal with this issue is to use our build system to configure > either EC.enc or ec.enc depending on what is available on the system (with a > direct check of the above location for EC.enc, and if it isn't there assume > the file is called ec.enc). > > Accordingly I configured all the changes that are in the Debian patch in > revision 8241 using the above simple test, and the resulting ligatures in > plplot-5.9.0.pdf look good on my Debian testing system. > > Hazen will you test that it works for you on your old Debian platform (i.e., > doc/docbook/src/pdftex.map is configured with EC.enc on your system)? Also, > will you double-check by looking for any strange-looking ligatures (the "ff" > in Geoff's name) in plplot-5.9.0.pdf. > > Thanks, Geoff, for having such a testworthy name. :-)
Thanks for the neat solution Alan. Works fine for me on Ubuntu Gutsy. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
