germandbls and Palatino

[Matthew Baker <Matthew.Baker@gmd.de>]

Hi Taco, Hans, everyone,

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

\let\SS=\ss

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

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

- Matt

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