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Some fonts have been reported to produce wrong characters with
preview-latex. preview-latex calls Dvips by default with the option
-Pwww
in order to get scalable fonts for nice results. If you
are using antialiasing, however, the results might be sufficiently nice
with bitmapped fonts, anyway. You might try -Ppdf
for another
stab at scalable fonts, or other printer definitions. Use
M-x customize-variable <RET> preview-fast-dvips-command <RET>
and
M-x customize-variable <RET> preview-dvips-command <RET>
in order to customize this.
One particular problem is that several printer setup files (typically in
a file called /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.pdf
if you are
using the -Ppdf
switch) contain the G
option for
`character shifting'. This option will result in fi
being
rendered as £
(British Pounds sign) in several fonts,
unless your version of Dvips has a long-standing bug in its
implementation fixed (only very recent versions of Dvips have).