[Ipe-discuss] TeX Live and missing characters

[Dmitriy Morozov]

Ah, thanks, Marc, the patch from that bug report was exactly what I
needed. I do compile Ipe myself since I maintain the package for the
Linux distribution that I use.

Thanks as well to everybody else for the responses.
Dmitriy

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Marc Glisse
<marc.glisse at normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Dmitriy Morozov wrote:
>
>> I'm using Ipe 6.0pre30, and updated to TeX Live. As a result, when I
>> insert LaTeX some characters are missing within Ipe (they show up fine
>> in the saved PDF). An example of a missing character would be sigma
>> sign in $\sum i$; "i" shows up just fine.
>
> Wow, that looks exactly like:
> http://http.theano.de/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253
>
> There is a patch attached to that bug report, I thought it would be included
> in most distributions (but maybe you are compiling ipe yourself).
>
> I think there used to be a simple workaround for this, something like adding
> \usepackage{lmodern} to the preamble, maybe it still works for you?
>
> --
> Marc Glisse
>