[pdftex] Bug LiteralDirectFirstSpace

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:33 AM 2/16/2003 +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
>Bug "LiteralSpaceFirstSpace":
>
>%%% cut %%% test.tex %%% cut %%%
>\nopagenumbers
>\pdfcompresslevel=0
>
>Hello
>\pdfliteral direct{}%
>1%
>\pdfliteral direct{}%
>!
>
>World\kern100bp\relax
>\pdfliteral direct{}%
>2%
>\pdfliteral direct{}%
>!
>
>\bye
>%%% cut %%% test.tex %%% cut %%%
>
>Look at the space between the number and the exclamation mark.
>It seems, that pdf_first_space_corr is applied twice and
>should suppressed the second times. The content of the
>\pdfliteral does not matter.

ah, clever deduction!

I always wondered why i could not use the direct in mp conversion (didn't 
think of bug in pdftex, more of some strange graphic interaction)

Why is pdf_first_space_corr needed anyway? (what is there to be corrected?)

Hans
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