[pdftex] Margin kerning changes

[flip phillips]

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 04:56  PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

>>>>>> "flip" == flip phillips <flip at skidmore.edu> writes:
>
>> so, i'm a little bit confused here. on mac os x i just updated
>> to the latest teTeX distribution (the 'texlive' distribution). i
>> know that there were some changes to protcode / margin kerning
>> recently, but now, old documents that used to typeset just fine
>> w/ margin kerning seem to completely overshoot the right margin.
>
>> do i have some sort of protcode / pdftex version synchronizing
>> problem here?
>
> Does texlive now provide pdfTeX-1.0?

yes-

>
> Then please look into protcode.tex.  There you'll find sth. like
>
>     \ifnum\pdftexversion > 13
>         \ifnum \expandafter`\pdftexrevision > `g
>

And indeed you are correct- there was an older version on my path that 
did no such checking.... not quite sure how it got there, but w/ 1.0 it 
was a bit confused.

Thanks for the pointer!
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flip phillips
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