Evening, all.
I just noticed some odd behavior from the xdvi in woody; it doesn't seem
to display small caps from postscript fonts correctly. The following
LaTeX file demonstrates the problem nicely:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{palatino}
\begin{document}
THIS IS ALL CAPS
\textsc{this is all caps}\qquad (but it was supposed to be small caps!)
\end{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
If I run this, latex produces a dvi with no errors, and xdvi displays it
correctly, with one exception: the second line appears in full-size
capital letters, but spaced as though it were in small caps. (In other
words, the letters are squished much more closely together than they
would be normally.) I get this behavior for palatino, times, and
utopia. If I comment out the usepackage line and use the Computer
Modern fonts, though, I get the small caps that I expect.
Also, I get the expected results with postscript fonts and dvips/gv or
other dvi viewers, like dvilx. Looks to me like the problem is with
xdvi, rather than latex or my font installations.
LaTeX's font mechanism continues to elude me, and a Google search hasn't
really helped here. Is this a bug, or a misconfiguration on my part?
(I haven't changed any of the tex configuration files, though I have
added some additional packages under /usr/local/share/texmf.
Temporarily removing them made no difference, though.)
Any suggestions would be welcome,
Richard
(Oh -- package versions:
[nanny-ogg:~/rec/books]$ COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l | grep ^ii\ \*tetex
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20011202-2 basic teTeX library files
ii tetex-bin 1.0.7+20011202-6 teTeX binary files
ii tetex-doc 1.0.2+20011202-2 teTeX documentation
ii tetex-extra 1.0.2+20011202-2 extra teTeX library files
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