It's not a problem. It is called an "fi" ligature and it is what TeX is supposed to do by default. It is supposed to make reading a document easier. What surprises me is that it went away when you ran dvips without -Ppdf. I don't generally use dvips. Nor do I use LyX.

Since I discovered PDFlib, I haven't been using TeX much, either.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, at 1:39am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I've always found the LyX interface somewhat clumsy.

  It is, no question about it.  However, it (so far) lets me write text docs
very quickly and easily, while generating nice printed output, and without
needing to learn anything.  ;-)


However, there was now a new problem: Every sequence of the characters
"fi" in my document had been replaced a symbol that looked like a cross
between cursive "f" and "l" symbols.  (Huh?!?!)

I went back and dropped the "-Ppdf" from the "dvips" command, and that
seems to have fixed the above, um, behavior, while still keeping the PDF
file looking good.
Huh.  That's bizzare.  What does your config.pdf file look like
(/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.pdf on my system)?

  Removing comments and blanklines, it says this:

m 6000000
o
D 8000
p +bsr.map
p +bsr-interpolated.map
p +hoekwater.map
R 300 600
G
h tex.pro
h alt-rule.pro

  I really don't care, it's just such a *weird* problem that I'm kinda
curious as to how it could happen at all.  :-)

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