Re: texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> Sorry, I haven't followed this thread closely (so I have no idea if this
>> has already been solved), but I had a similar symptom a while ago. It
>> turned out that it was something with the default EC.enc that ships with
>> tetex. Can you try to do the conversion again, this time using lm-ec.enc
>> instead of EC.enc? I can send a longer explanation if that's of
>> interest, but I found that it solved the problem in my case.
>
> Thanks for that hint. There is no file lm-ec.enc in my installation, 
> but ec-var-lm.enc. If I add a --variant=var-lm to the parameters for 
> texfont (or alternatively create a symbolic link ec.ec -> 
> ec-var-lm.enc in my private texmf tree), then the ligatures work 
> correctly! Unfortunately, umlauts don't work anymore, both typed 
> directly (�, �, �. �, ...) and with the TeX commands ("a, "o, "u, "s, 
> ...). Did you have problems with umlauts as well using lm-ec.enc? 
> Maybe I should try cork.enc (--encoding=cork) instead? The main reason 
> I want to install the font with ec encoding is that I also want to use 
> it under LaTeX with the T1 encoding.
that vector was meant for the version of latin modern that had special umlaut characters (these were dropped in later versions)

Hans 

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