Re: Lucida Fonts in teTeX

Hi Thomas, everyone

Thanks for the helpful reply.  Indeed, \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} does 
seem to work.  However, two things still worry me:

1.  Is the problem due to me having 'out-of-date' OT1-encoded .pfb 
files from Y&Y?  Should I upgrade my .pfb files somehow (like by buying 
new ones) to avoid having to use the \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} thing in 
every new LaTeX document I create?

2.  From a diagnostic point of view, it's a shame that pdflatex 'failed 
silently' when I installed the fonts.  I get no errors, but no Lucida 
fonts, just Computer Modern.  It took me many, many hours of messing 
around to track this down.  Assuming my guess in 1. above is right, 
wouldn't it be possible to have some run-time error message to the 
effect of 'WARNING: Old-style Lucida Bright fonts detected but no 
longer supported, see <reference> for support options'.  (I suspect 
this isn't a teTeX-specific problem and, if so, please excuse my 
moaning!)

Cheers
- Vaughan

On 26/03/2004, at 11:53 PM, Thomas Esser wrote:

>> and they have been following me around ever since.  They used to work
>> just fine, but recently they stopped working when I upgraded teTeX,
>
> I guess that you just need to
>   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> or
>   \usepackage[LY1]{fontenc}
> to get the fonts working again.
>
> Walter Schmidt, the maintainer of the "Lucida Bright font pack for 
> LaTeX"
> has dropped support for OT1 encoding in his package. For details, look
> at texmf/doc/fonts/bh/lucida.txt. If you are unhappy about that 
> decision,
> please discuss this directly with Walter Schmidt.
>
> Thomas
>

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