It took a lot of searching for a minimal case, apparently there are many levels of interaction here. The file below has blanks for fi fl ff when compiled with pdftex-1.40.1 but not with pdftex-1.30.5. Do you need some parts of my tex/font setup as well? Johan \usetypescriptfile[type-sil-gentium] \usetypescript[my][sil-gentium] \setupbodyfont[sil-gentium, 10pt] \definetypeface [chance] [cg] [calligraphy] [chancery] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \def\ChCmd#1#2{% \switchtobodyfont[14pt] \setupinterlinespace[small] \framed[width=15cm, align=normal, frame=off] {\framed[frame=off, align=middle, offset=2mm, width=.8\textwidth]{#2} \hfilll\switchtobodyfont[chance,30pt] \framed[background=color, backgroundcolor=black, width=3cm, align=right]{\white\bf#1}}} \setuphead [chapter] [command=\ChCmd, header=empty, page=right] \starttext \chapter[meth]{Methods for studying human brain function} fill significantly flog flash floozy flagellation \stoptext 2007/2/1, Taco Hoekwater :

Hi Johan,

If the only change is the pdftex version, than it sounds like this is a pdftex bug. Any chance you can create a small standalone testfile?

Best, Taco

Johan Sandblom wrote:

...

When I moved from pdftex-1.30.5-2.2 (from texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-10 on debian) to pdftex-1.40.1 suddenly ligatures in gentium exhibited erratic behavior: they appeared correctly (or, more accurately, the letters appeared, they did not look like a proper ligature) on screen in xpdf and acroread but did not print (there were just empty spaces). On windows, the fi, fl, and ff combinations made blanks, just as on the printer. Reverting to pdftex-1.30.5-2.2 corrected the problem. Gentium is from ttf-gentium 1.02-2 on debian and the typescript I use is below. Perhaps my poor typesetting knowledge has lead me wrong and the lack of true ligatures is the actual problem?

Regards, Johan

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For the time being I simplified my design and removed the use of Zapf Chancery, and there is no problem. Johan 2007/2/1, Hans Hagen :

Johan Sandblom wrote:

...

It took a lot of searching for a minimal case, apparently there are many levels of interaction here. The file below has blanks for fi fl ff when compiled with pdftex-1.40.1 but not with pdftex-1.30.5. Do you need some parts of my tex/font setup as well?

Johan

\usetypescriptfile[type-sil-gentium] \usetypescript[my][sil-gentium] \setupbodyfont[sil-gentium, 10pt]

\definetypeface [chance] [cg] [calligraphy] [chancery] [default] [encoding=texnansi]

\def\ChCmd#1#2{% \switchtobodyfont[14pt] \setupinterlinespace[small] \framed[width=15cm, align=normal, frame=off] {\framed[frame=off, align=middle, offset=2mm, width=.8\textwidth]{#2} \hfilll\switchtobodyfont[chance,30pt] \framed[background=color, backgroundcolor=black, width=3cm, align=right]{\white\bf#1}}}

\setuphead [chapter] [command=\ChCmd, header=empty, page=right]

\starttext

\chapter[meth]{Methods for studying human brain function}

fill significantly flog flash floozy flagellation

\stoptext

2007/2/1, Taco Hoekwater :

...

Hi Johan,

If the only change is the pdftex version, than it sounds like this is a pdftex bug. Any chance you can create a small standalone testfile?

Best, Taco

Johan Sandblom wrote:

...

When I moved from pdftex-1.30.5-2.2 (from texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-10 on debian) to pdftex-1.40.1 suddenly ligatures in gentium exhibited erratic behavior: they appeared correctly (or, more accurately, the letters appeared, they did not look like a proper ligature) on screen in xpdf and acroread but did not print (there were just empty spaces). On windows, the fi, fl, and ff combinations made blanks, just as on the printer. Reverting to pdftex-1.30.5-2.2 corrected the problem. Gentium is from ttf-gentium 1.02-2 on debian and the typescript I use is below. Perhaps my poor typesetting knowledge has lead me wrong and the lack of true ligatures is the actual problem?

no, but it may be related to a bug in vf handling that has been resolved by now (new version of pdftex coming)

Hans

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Sorry, neglected to mention (it was long ago and I had forgotten), I installed it with texfont texfont --ma --in --ve=sil --co=gentium --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf --afmpl [--en=ec] hmm, can't remember if it was /usr/share on the end Thank you for your efforts Johan 2007/2/2, Taco Hoekwater :

Hi Johan,

Johan Sandblom wrote:

...

For the time being I simplified my design and removed the use of Zapf Chancery, and there is no problem.

I am trying to work this out, but I obviously miss the gentium font files (metric and map files, as wel as the actual fonts). I can get the ttfs from the sil site, but where did the tfms and map files come from?

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The -recorder switch of pdftex/web2c (don't know how to use that with texexec)

Like so: texexec --passon=-recorder file.tex The --passon feature had lapsed in the transition from perl to ruby texexec, but Hans and Taco fixed it in one of the recent ConTeXt releases. I now use it all the time to get compiler-like error msgs: texexec --passon=-file-line-error ... filtering the output through egrep -i -A 4 '^([^ :]+:[0-9]+: |output written.*pages)' to select the error lines and a bit of context, so to speak. -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)

2007/2/2, Taco Hoekwater :

I am trying to work this out, but I obviously miss the gentium font files (metric and map files, as wel as the actual fonts). I can get the ttfs from the sil site, but where did the tfms and map files come from?

Take mine: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4 Greetlings, Hraban

2007/2/5, luigi scarso :

This seem to be fixed with 1.40.3 release of pdftex .

This _is_ fixed and the only reason for 1.40.3. :-} Best Martin