Re: Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> the order is just one factor. what actually happens is that there is a
> compensation for buggy font names (as happens often in afm files) so  
> in
> practice one entry might become three entries; taco noticed that one  
> of
> the fallbacks create this way will then obscure a following one
>
> in your case it might be order on disk (although the current  
> mechanisms
> do some sorting) but on our machines more likely is that a bugged afm
> font obscures later otf's (with similar names)
>
> anyhow, we'll cook up a patch
>
> Hans

Very funny - I was following this thread with interest, yet had never  
encountered this problem. This morning, I played around with the  
minimals on my linux eeepc (had always used TeXLive, but saving some  
space seemed like a good idea) and got exactly the same problem:  
instead of bold, I get bold italic. If I typeset the same file with my  
TeXLive installation, I get proper bold. So Vasile is on to something  
here...

Thomas
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