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

[Tigran Aivazian]

I forgot to add that the problem is seen even on the .dvi result of the 
first pass, so you can ignore the complex stuff to do with multiple passes 
(which is to do with saving marks in a file and then reusing them because 
LaTeX marks and marn's margins are not compatible --- hence the three 
passes needed).

Kind regards
Tigran

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> regarding how those files were built:
> 
> $ export LIST="shir"
> $ makepdf
> 
> or, to build a dvi also do export DVIOUT=1.
> 
> I have placed the dvi versions and the build logs to the same URL:
> 
> http://www.bibles.org.uk/bugs
> 
> Kind regards
> Tigran
> 
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Karl Berry wrote:
> > 
> > >     Isn't this advertised behavior? \beginR puts a node on the horizontal  
> > >     list, so the overfull box you get in the example is \parindent.
> > > 
> > > Ah!  Sorry for my ignorance.  Well, that explains why the simple TeX
> > > file gets the overfull box, but I don't think it explains Tigran's
> > > original problem at http://www.bibles.org.uk/bugs, where characters are
> > > actually missing, eg, printed off the page (at the right-hand side of
> > > the last line on the first page).  Perhaps it is pdf-specific after all.
> > > I did ask Tigran for more info and sources, so hopefully ...
> > > 
> > > Bernd and Peter, sorry to bother.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have also reproduced it with using latex instead of pdflatex and
> > generating .dvi files instead of .pdf. The same thing happens, i.e. with 
> > old TeX Live it works but with the latest some words are shifted far to 
> > the right and others completely disappear from view (presumably xdvi can't 
> > show that "far" beyond the end of the page).
> > 
> > As for sources, I can provide the sources of course (they are on 
> > http://www.bibles.org.uk/src/tnk.tar.gz) but in order to compile them you 
> > will need Tiqwah fonts and Tiqwah preprocessor, which I am bound by my 
> > honest word to Yannis Haralambous to not give away under any circumstances 
> > (he kindly donated Tiqwah to the tnk project for Hebrew Bible typesetting)
> > 
> > Could the problem be ascertained from sources without Tiqwah? If this is
> > utterly impossible, but some kind person does volunteer to help, I will
> > gladly give him/her ssh account on my development box where Tiqwah is
> > installed in restricted way (i.e. you can't copy it outside) where this
> > can be easily reproduced and pdf file viewed. Both "old" and "new" TeX
> > Live are installed there (in /usr/local/TeX-new and /usr/local/TeX
> > respectively) so one can easily switch between the two environments for
> > debugging.
> > 
> > I tested exactly the same layout but in Greek and the problem did NOT 
> > happen, so this is probably specific to etex's right-to-left state.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Tigran
> > 
> > 
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