Having a little trouble here with latex. I write things up at home, check in xdvi, then mail the tex files to work for printing.
Recently any occurrence of `fi' is rendered by a greek letter. So a word like Office become Of?ce. I'm not sure what to switch off or what kind of package I'm using which does this.
Typical preamble:
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{put} \usepackage{color} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}
Is latex using math mode without me asking for it? If so, can I specify text mode only?
I doubt that LaTeX is invoking math mode by itself. First I suspect it is a ligature problem as fi becomes a single glyph in the dvi file rather than a separate f and i. The same is true for ff and other character pairs.
Next, I am not sure when you mentioned mailing them to work whether you mail the test.tex file or the test.dvi file. I bet its the dvi file that you email and your system at work does not have that font. The system substitutes a font which has a greek character at the location that the ligature should be occupying. Maybe.....?
Also I dont have a font family called "put". What happens if you have instead cmr or cmss - does the problem go away? What happens if you email the text file and run it on the machine at work? What happens if you make the dvi file a PostScript file and send it to work?
Mike
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