At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:06:26 +1100, Nick Croft wrote:
> 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}
I would guess that your font encoding has changed somehow. "fi" is a
very common ligature, and if your font encoding is wrong (or virtual
font out of whack) then you could end up with the wrong glyph
everywhere that ligature is used.
If you add \useencoding[T1] to your preamble, you'll end up using some
different font files that may bypass the problem. Either way, I'd
start filing a bug with your distro provider.
To test TeX's understanding of a font, you should be able to run "tex
testfont" and give the answer "putr7t" or something when asked which
font to test. At the "*" prompt type "\sample\bye" and you'll get a
dvi which shows the full font table (and a sample piece of text). If
this. In OT1 encoding (the LaTeX default) table, I believe the "fi"
ligature appears in position 014.
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- Gus
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