[tex-live] bug in the latest TeX Live snapshot.

Peter Breitenlohner peb at mppmu.mpg.de
Mon Oct 11 09:52:26 CEST 2004


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Karl Berry wrote:

I just got a bunch of messages
  	"Re: [tex-live] bug in the latest TeX Live snapshot."
accumulated over the weekend (but there never was the original one without
the Re).


>    My guess is that something goes
>    wrong in the module <Handle a glue node for mixed...>,
>
> Especially since that appears to be mostly new code in etex 2.2
> (although bearing some resemblance to code in the do_glue function in
> etex 2.1), seems like a good guess.

It is supposed to do the same thing as do_glue, but...

> Peter, Bernd, in case it's not obvious by now, we really need you.
>
> Here is a simple file.tex, distilling from all the others that have been
> posted:
>
>    \output={\shipout\box255}
>    \loggingall
>    \TeXXeTstate=1
>
>    \parindent=0pt
>    \beginR\centerline{Vyr hVyryM}\endR
>
>    \end
>
> Processed with simply "etex file.tex".
>
> There no interesting differences in the .log between etex 2.1 and 2.2
> (all the glue set ratios are identical, for example), but the dvi's are
> very different -- the text is off the page in 2.2.

With all the various experiments you have really narrowed down the problem.

I'll have a look and hope to have an answer within a day or so.

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>



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