[OS X TeX] microtype problem

[Gary L. Gray]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 16 nov. 04, à 19:25, Gary L. Gray a écrit :
>
>> The odd thing is that it works on some documents. In addition, it 
>> does not work for me on the one document I mentioned, but it does 
>> work for a colleague on exactly the same document (who has the same 
>> TeX installation that I have).
>
> Did you check whether you and your colleague have any significant 
> difference in your files:
>
> 	/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/updmap.cfg
> 	/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
>
> Also, between Gerben's setup for TL2003 and TL2004, something has 
> changed with respect to Latin Modern: in TL2003 it was stored in 
> texmf.gwtex or texmf.local (I don't remember which one), now it's in 
> texmf.tetex. Depending on how TL2004 was installed over TL2003, and 
> whether the final TL2004 was installed or one of the betas, it may 
> happen that you have two LM installations at the same time.
>
> I don't think that any of the above should really matter, and cause 
> the problem you experience, I'm just trying to figure out possible 
> differences, with respect to LM, between yours and your colleague's 
> setup.

I completely un-installed and then re-installed TeX and now I no longer 
get the microtype warnings that I got before, but microtype still does 
not do anything in the problematic document. Microtype does still work 
in the test document.

This is very strange. :-(

-- Gary
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