[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.99994 and xeCJK

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7/2/16 03:29, Qing Lee wrote:

> But I find two issues after installing new XeTeX from w32tex.org.
>
> Firstly, the character class argument of \XeTeXinterchartoks seems not
> to be enlarged:
>
> \XeTeXinterchartoks 1 300 = {\relax}
> \bye
>
> I get
>
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99994 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX/dev)
> (preloaded format=xetex 2016.2.7)  7 FEB 2016 11:06
> entering extended mode
>   restricted \write18 enabled.
>   %&-line parsing enabled.
> **./z.tex
> (./z.tex
> ! Bad register code (300).
> l.15 \XeTeXinterchartoks 1 300
>                                 = {\relax}
> ?
>   )
> No pages of output.
>
> Moreover, the character class functionality seems to be broken:
>
> \XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1
> ab
> \bye
>
> I get a Windows error message which says that xetex.exe has stopped
> working.


Sorry, you're right; this is badly broken.

I'll look into it, and either revert to the old limit (sorry), or fix 
the implementation if that seems feasible.

JK