Re: germandbls and Palatino

[Taco Hoekwater <taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl>]

Hi Matthew,

Looks like (at least) your context distrib is broken. The format
generation log might help, but if not than my guess would be: delete
all context-related stuff from your harddisk and re-install.

This does not really explain the missing ligs though. Another thing
that might help is a very small input file + log + dvi:

\setupbodyfont[ber,ppl]\useencoding[win]{\tracingall"s---ß? finally?}\bye

(please send all that junk directly to me, not to the list)

Greetings and good luck,

Taco
>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Baker <Matthew.Baker@gmd.de> writes:

    Matthew> Hi Taco, Hans, everyone,

    Matthew> Still no success with either ligatures or sharp s's.  I
    Matthew> added the line Taco suggested to enco-ec.tex but, as far
    Matthew> as I can tell, it had no effect.  Switching to the win
    Matthew> encoding causes "s and ß to switch to sans-serif font.  I
    Matthew> imagine this is because \SS switches to sans serif.  In
    Matthew> font-ini.tex there is the line

    Matthew> \let\SS=\ss

    Matthew> The comment above says this is to to make \SS produce the
    Matthew> sharp s so that \ss can safely be overridden with the
    Matthew> sans-serif command.  If I comment this line out and
    Matthew> remake the format files, ß and "s no longer switch to
    Matthew> sans serif.  So it seems to me that, when font-ini.tex is
    Matthew> loaded, \ss already is set up to switch to sans-serif.

    Matthew> That's the ß problem.  I had a look in both my tfm and vf
    Matthew> files and they both contain 2 times 15 ligature lines.
    Matthew> Are there any switches in context that can cause it to
    Matthew> produce more output that will help in finding this
    Matthew> problem?

    Matthew> - Matt

    Matthew> -- Dr. Matthew Baker matthew.baker@gmd.de GMD - FIT.MMK
    Matthew> http://fit.gmd.de/hci/pages/matthew.baker.html

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