Re: Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

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David Wooten wrote:

> I'm back to ask another question:
> After an initial successful installation of the purchased fonts, I've 
> come to find that there is a serious quirk. That is, when I try to use 
> any special glyph, be it an accented character of any kind, or e.g. an 
> eth. The result of something like \"a (or \"{a}) is _a_ without the 
> diacritic. Curiously (to me, at least:), if I enter the actual glyph: ä, 
> it gives me the character I need…but only for a few runs! After adding a 
> couple more of such "alternative" glyphs, it starts to show gibberish. 
> Some trials evince an ff-ligature as the diacritic. Errors in the 
> mapping/virtual font/…?

i can imagine interference between input encoding and remapping (map/enc file) 
later in the pipeline, but what puzzles me is that different runs produce 
something different; sounds more like an os/caching problem

Hans

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