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Re: Lout on Arch stopped handling symbols
From: |
Wolfram Kahl |
Subject: |
Re: Lout on Arch stopped handling symbols |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:47:03 -0500 |
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:28:25PM -0800, Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
> Anyone else using Lout on Arch Linux?
>
> I've been happily using Lout 3.40 to write a math paper, about 96%
> done. Haven't touched it in a few months. Been busy with other stuff.
> I've updated Arch (pacman -Syu) once or twice since. Now when I run
> lout on my paper's files, the resulting .ps file is lacking all
> parenthesis, all math symbols such as = and +, and my horizontal curly
> brackets I've gotten help with here before. At least a few Dingbat
> symbols still show up. Body text is normal.
>
> My Lout installation is in /usr/local/lout, and shouldn't have been
> touched at all in many months. I'm not using Arch's Lout package,
> which is an older version. I compiled Lout from source, something I've
> done many times over the years. I hope my problem is just a missing
> file, something the newer Arch versions dropped, or maybe it's the
> PS/PDF viewer, Evince, that's messing up.
Sometimes I need to restart the viewer after re-running lout,
because the viewer apparently is in some inconsistent stat with repect to fonts.
(I'm not on Arch.)
(Perhaps investigate your fontconfig settings; and possibly restart your X
server.)
Wolfram