[tex-live] fwd: \delta in overfull \hboxes screws up xterm
Vladimir Volovich
vvv at vsu.ru
Sat Jul 17 00:42:13 CEST 2004
"DK" == David Kastrup writes:
[...]
>> You argue that it's not possible to "go back" to \delta once it
>> reached TeX's stomach (which is quite true); I see no major
>> difference between this "loss of connection to original input" and
>> the same loss of connection to original input which occurs in
>> e.g. \verb+^^I+: once TeX have read the input, and converted it to
>> tokens, the connection to the original input is lost.
DK> Well, and your point is? The error context in TeX's error
DK> messages is straight from the input buffer, _before_ conversion
DK> to tokens. And it is the veracity of those error messages that I
DK> am talking about all the time. Tokenization has absolutely
DK> nothing to with it. Neither has internal list presentation.
DK> The problem is that TeX is using the same output routines for
DK> rendering error message contexts "readable" as it does for
DK> rendering material passed through or produced by TeX readable.
right, - so making "full 8-bit terminal output" will not only allow
TeX to output error context lines "as is", but also will have
potentially meaningless and/or dangerous behavior when it will be
applied to "passed through" material.
the only clean solution would be to allow full 8-bit output only for
the messages produced for unparsed material (error context lines, etc).
i don't know if it's simple enough to separate such kinds of terminal
writes in TeX.
Best,
v.
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