[comp.text.tex] dvips 5.41 pound / dollar mapping

tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) (06/20/91)

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