[OS X TeX] ligature fi not appearing

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 13, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Jason Davies wrote:

> Dear TeXers
>
> I generally lurk and am not expert in this...
>
> Suddenly (it seems) ligatures 'fi' is not appearing in pdfs (so  
> `definition' is coming out as `denition').
>
> I'm using the package times and have TexLive 2008 selected in the  
> TeX distribution System Preference.
>
> I'm not even sure what to report or check in terms of versions  
> installed and so on and would welcome guidance on what I should be  
> providing to get some help with this:-)
>
> I'm using BBEdit 9.2 and TeXShop 2.26 (the latest version)
>
> I only noticed this today -- and installed 10.5.7 last night (the  
> only major change I've made at any level recently).
>
> Grateful for any help, including what other info is needed to  
> diagnose this...I've appended the console log
>
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> \write18 enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./LeverhulmeBelief.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,  
> ibycus, ar
> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
> danish, dutc
> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
> ngerman, mono
> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
> italian, la
> tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,  
> romanian, rus
> sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish,  
> turkish, ukenglis
> h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (./ 
> harvard.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty
> Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01>
> ) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty)
> (./LeverhulmeBelief.aux)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ptm.fd) [1{/ 
> usr/local/t
> exlive/2008/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] [3]  
> [4] [5]
> [6] [7]
> Overfull \hbox (6.08168pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 104--106
> []\OT1/ptm/m/n/12 `Believe' cap-tures an ex-traor-di-nary com-plex  
> set of con-s
> id-er-a-tions, which
> [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]  
> [22]
> Overfull \hbox (6.27423pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 194--199
> []\OT1/ptm/m/n/12 Instead of at-tempt-ing to rec-on-cile the con-tra- 
> dic-tions
> of those
>
> Overfull \hbox (3.22638pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 204--209
> []\OT1/ptm/m/n/12 Thus, it is the dis-parate pat-terns of or-ga-niz- 
> ing be-lief
> s, rather
> [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]  
> [36] [37]
> [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50]
> (./LeverhulmeBelief.bbl [51]) [52] (./LeverhulmeBelief.aux) )
> (see the transcript file for additional information){/usr/local/ 
> texlive/2008/te
> xmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf- 
> dist/fonts/
> type1/urw/times/utmb8a.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/ 
> type1/urw/
> times/utmbi8a.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/ 
> urw/times/utm
> r8a.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times/ 
> utmri8a.pfb>
> Output written on LeverhulmeBelief.pdf (52 pages, 127285 bytes).
> Transcript written on LeverhulmeBelief.log.


Howdy,

It appears that you are using a URW Times font. Could you provide a  
minimal, but complete and compilable, example document so we can see  
what may be causing the problem?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)