Re: pkg/32893: teTex3 doesn't render \textsl in dvipdfm with custom fonts

[Christian Hattemer <c.hattemer%arcor.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/32893; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Hattemer <c.hattemer%arcor.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/32893: teTex3 doesn't render \textsl in dvipdfm with custom 
fonts
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:30:17 +0100

 Hello Jeremy,
 
 On 21.02.06, you wrote:
 
 >  > With teTeX-3.0nb1 (installed from print/teTeX) dvipdfm/dvipdfmx
 >  > render \textsl as normal (unslanted) text when a custom font is
 >  > used.
 >
 >  Is this a problem with pkgsrc? Or does this problem exist in the
 >  dvipdfm  as provided by upstream developers?
 
 I'd guess that it may well be an upstream problem, but I don't know. I'm not
 familiar with the LaTeX internals required to properly answer this.
 
 I also don't have a Linux box or something like that at hand which could be
 used to rule out pkgsrc as the source of the problem.
 
 Bye, Chris