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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-misschar.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-misschar.html index cef0b600977..9e3817e233d 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-misschar.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-misschar.html @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label misschar</title> </head><body> <h3>Where have my characters gone?</h3> -<p/>You’ve typed some apparently reasonable text and processed it, but the +<p/>You’ve typed some apparently reasonable text and processed it, but the result contains no sign of some of the characters you typed. A likely -reason is that the font you selected just doesn’t have a +reason is that the font you selected just doesn’t have a representation for the character in question. -<p/>For example, if I type “that will be £44.00” into an ordinary +<p/>For example, if I type “that will be £44.00” into an ordinary (La)TeX document, or if I select the font <code>rsfs10</code> (which contains -uppercase letters only) and type pretty much anything, the £ +uppercase letters only) and type pretty much anything, the £ sign, or any lowercase letters or digits will not appear in the -output. There’s no actual error message, either: you have to read the -log file, where you’ll find cryptic little messages like +output. There’s no actual error message, either: you have to read the +log file, where you’ll find cryptic little messages like <blockquote> <pre> Missing character: There is no ^^a3 in font cmr10! @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ Missing character: There is no 3 in font rsfs10! </pre> </blockquote><p> -(the former demonstrating my TeX’s unwillingness to deal in characters +(the former demonstrating my TeX’s unwillingness to deal in characters which have the eighth bit set, while the <code>rsfs10</code> example shows that -TeX will log the actual character in error, if it thinks it’s +TeX will log the actual character in error, if it thinks it’s possible). <p/>Somewhat more understandable are the diagnostics you may get from <i>dvips</i> when using the OT1 and T1 versions of @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ dvips: Warning: missing glyph `Delta' The process that generates the metrics for using the fonts generates an instruction to <i>dvips</i> to produce these diagnostics, so that their non-appearance in the printed output is less surprising -than it might be. Quite a few glyphs provided in Knuth’s text +than it might be. Quite a few glyphs provided in Knuth’s text encodings and in the Cork encoding are not available in the Adobe fonts. In these cases, there <em>is</em> a typeset sign of the character: <i>dvips</i> produces a black rectangle of whatever |