Re: Horizontal bracket trouble

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:43:38 -0700, Daren Scot Wilson wrote:

> But ps2pdf, I'm not so impressed by.  In several places I use a horizontal
> curly bracket to indicate a section of an expression. It looks good when
> viewed in the Postscript file produced by Lout.  But when I make a PDF by
> running ps2pdf, it's transformed into boxes of the type for when a glyph
> can't be found.   This is on an Arch Linux machine with plenty of RAM, fast
> CPU, etc.
[...]
> This is likely a problem in ps2pdf, not Lout, but maybe experienced Louters
> (?) have seen something like this before, involving turning something 90
> degrees.   Does anyone know of a workaround?

Works for me here on Ubuntu 16.04

evince tells me that there are embedded subsets of Times-*, but that
Symbol is not embedded, substituted with $free_alternative from
/usr/share

Symbol is one of the 14 standard Adobe fonts, so most likely your pdf
viewer installation is missing somthing.

-uwe