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From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
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Subject: dvips 5.41 pound / dollar mapping
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Date: 19 Jun 91 20:30:57 GMT
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We have this version of dvips and its associated afm2tfm and PS afms.
It seems that afm2tfm doesn't know about italic fonts, and maps
`dollar' into where `pound' should be in italic.  This is unfortunate
for us brits.  I can probably fix it by understanding the Adobe
encoding and editing the vpl file, but I'd rather have an afm2tfm
which did the right thing.

If I get a newer dvips (what's the current one anyway?), will it have
fixed this?  Has anyone else fixed it some other way?  Am I completely
misdiagnosing the problem (it *could* be with the NFSS but I don't
think so (the dvi file looks like it's got the right thing in it).

--tim