bbding symbols are hyooge

[Maria Gouskova]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 7:18 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubin73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/17/20 6:56 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 1:52 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/17/20 12:48 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
>>
>> Hi LyX users,
>>
>> Can anyone reproduce this? All I have in my sample file is
>> \usepackage{bbding} in the preamble, and something like \Checkmark{} or
>> \FiveStar{} in the body of the file. These used to come out to scale with
>> the text, and now they are absolutely enormous in the PDF. Doesn't seem to
>> depend on whether non-TeX fonts are used. I have LyX 2.3.3 on Linux Mint; I
>> think at least as recently as this past May (2.3.2?), bbding worked fine.
>>
>> (I can produce a checkmark with \checkmark{} from the amsmath package, so
>> this isn't critical, just kind of weird.)
>>
>> Maria
>>
>> Do you consider the check mark and star in the attached PDF huge or to
>> scale? This was also done on Linux Mint using LyX 2.3.3.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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>
>
> Yeah those are not what I am seeing. Attached--
>
> The good news first: you're not hallucinating. Those really are large
> icons.
> The bad news: when I compile your file, I get normal size icons.
>
> I cannot find any non-default settings in your document that could account
> for what you are seeing. Grasping at straws, you might try looking at the
> full LaTeX source (View > Code Preview Pane, then select "LaTeX (pdflatex)"
> and "Complete Source" in the preview pane. This is what I get:
>
> % Preview source code
>
> %% LyX 2.3.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
>
> %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
>
> \documentclass[english]{article}
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
>
> \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
>
> \geometry{verbose,tmargin=1in,bmargin=1in,lmargin=1in,rmargin=1in}
>
> \setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
>
> \setcounter{tocdepth}{4}
>
> \usepackage{amsmath}
>
> \usepackage{amssymb}
>
> \usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
>
> \makeatletter
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
>
> \usepackage{bbding}
>
> \AtBeginDocument{
>
> \def\labelitemiii{\(\circ\)}
>
> }
>
> \makeatother
>
> \usepackage{babel}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> text text \Checkmark{} text text \FiveStar{} text
>
> \end{document}
>
> Do you see any differences at your end? For that matter, are you using
> pdflatex?
>

No, and yes--and I also tried a few different methods of PDF creation
before giving up. I tried various classic ones and XeTeX, too, thinking it
was a font issue.


> (I tried a few other routes to PDF output, and none of them gave me
>> Brobdingnagian symbols.)
>>
> Last possibility: I'm using TeXLive 2018. What LaTeX system are you using?
>

I have TeX Live 2017/Debian, pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18. Digging into it
a bit more, I tried a simple TeX file, and ran into the same problem--so it
wasn't really a LyX issue but a problem with my TeX installation.

For posterity, here's how I fixed it: first, I looked at the tex log file,
which contained the following line:

LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for U+ding on input line
27.
(/home/.../texmf/tex/latex/bbding/Uding.fd
File: Uding.fd 1996/02/01 v1.0 BBding font definitions
)
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `U/ding/m/n' will be
(Font)              scaled to size 128.00003pt on input line 27.

It seems that my own texmf directory had an old and apparently problematic
version of bbding, and since TeX looks there first, it didn't find the
texlive-fonts-extra bbding that is installed elsewhere on my system. I
removed the /home bbding directory and tried again, and everything returned
back to normal.

What's sort of interesting is that this old bbding directory has been there
for well over a decade, survived various OSes, and only started causing
problems now. I guess the texlive folks decided to "improve" something. Oh
well, thanks, Paul!

Maria


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> Paul
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