Comments on: Initial version of DejaVu Sans Mono package

By: ∃xistential Type » New version of the DejaVu Sans Mono package

∃xistential Type » New version of the DejaVu Sans Mono package — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:04:24 +0000

[...] just finished fixing the bugs Brian noted in the previous version. You can grab it using darcs get from http://free-the-mallocs.com/repos/dejavu-sans-mono. This [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:11:59 +0000

I also used otftofd to make Deja Vu Sans Mono usable with LaTeX, after using FontForge to save the font sources as OpenType files.

3. What are the differences if I go this way, as compared to the package you made?

4. I hacked otftofd to recognize “Oblique” as a shape. Also, a “s*” before the scaling factor, e.g., “s*[0.80]” seems to cause LaTeX not to output a warning about scaling the font size.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:11:52 +0000

I finally got around to trying this package out. A few observations.

1. The OMakefile’s default target didn’t want to build all the afm files and friends, instead choosing to fail miserably at building test.pdf (due to all the missing afm files).

2. \usepackage{dvsm} has to come before \usepackage{hyperref} it seems. Otherwise, I get the following error:

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! LaTeX Error: Command \textmu already defined.
Or name \end… illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H for immediate help.
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l.28 \newcommand{\textmu}{{\dvsm{\char”EB}}}
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