[tex-live] Re: xdvi horror (on TL6)

janl@linpro.no janl@linpro.no
Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:38:27 +0200


Rainer Menzner <Rainer.Menzner@zn-ag.com> tastet:
> > > The problem is that xdvi expects
> > > /encplrm [
> > > with space before `[' which is the bug (also known some years ago from
> > > pstopk)
> > >
> > 
> > Maybe, this is my mistake, but I'm pretty sure to have taken care for
> > the case that the mark character directly follows the encodingname
> > because this is valid PostScript. I'll check that, but not before this
> > evening.
> > 
> 
> I have verified that t1lib *should* have read this encoding file,
> provided there are no further problems with that file (but the error
> message is quite descriptive). I'm sorry, cannot explain this behavior.
> Maybe the sources are modified or the problem somehow depends on the
> system type. I have checked this on Intel/Linux.

I think I can say definitly that this is my bug.  The only version of
the dvips t1enc vector reading in xdvik is the version I submitted to
Rainer, in which he found some features.

Nicolai