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--- Begin Message ---Hi dblatex people, here is an other bug I'v just submitted to the Debian BTS, and it must be your (upstream's) responsibility. Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version: 0.1.9-2 > > In dbk_hyper.sty, dblatex loads pslatex.sty. First of all, this is a > strange file to do that, since pslatex.sty changes fonts and has nothing > to do with hyperref features. > > But the real bug is that pslatex.sty is obsolete, see also > l2tabuen.pdf. In the package it says: > > ,----[ pslatex.sty ] > | % This file consists of verbatim copies of times.sty and mathptm.sty > | % to get a basic times/helvetica/courier setup. > `---- > > And in psnfss2e.pdf, the main documentation for using PostScript fonts > under LaTeX, mathptm.sty is described: > > ,----[ 9.2 The package mathptm ] > | The package mathptm is a predecessor to mathptmx. In contrast to the > | latter and to LaTeX's standard behavior, lowercase Greek in math is > | typeset upright. Zapf Chancery is used as the calligraphic math > | alphabet, which causes some problems with proper spacing. mathptm needs > | the font cmex9, which may not be available in Type 1 format. > `---- > > This means that math symbols will look strange, spacing problems might > occur, and generated PDF files might contain Type3 fonts (pixel fonts) > which are not suited for screen display. > > The package should load these packages instead: > > \usepackage{mathptmx} > \usepackage[scaled=.90]{helvet} > \usepackage{courier} > > By the way, with the wide textwidth you use, Times is not optimal (it > has been designed for newspapers with their very small columns). > Palatino (mathpazo.sty) might be better suited, although the document > will get a bit longer. > > > Here are some minor additional bugs: > > - graphicx should not be loaded with option dvips. This is not > necessary, it will detect itself whether PDF or DVI output has been > chosen. The current setting will break if you try to create a PDF > with pdfTeX from the same LaTeX source. > > - Please do not use epsfig. It has been obsolete for ages. graphicx > already provides all that is needed to include figures. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
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