On 8/6/06, 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
Hmmm ... how old is your ConTeXt then? You should install the new verision of Latin Modern, but recent version of ConTeXt doesn't work with the old version of Latin Modern.
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 (ä, ö, ü. ß, ...) 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?
Cork won't help you. It's just as bad as ec.enc (they're just synonyms - both are old and kind-of-obsolete, but nobody wants to modernise them; they say that you have to write your own for the usage with recent fonts). You can try if you'll have more luck with this one (should be more or less equivalent with ec-lm.enc if you would have the latest version of LM installed): http://www.tug.org/fontname/tex256.enc ec.enc would give you way too many missing glyphs anyway. Mojca