[pdftex] problem with margin kerning

[Thanh Han The]

please provide some minimal test file to reproduce the
problem.

Thanh

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:24:22PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote:
> I have a file that prints fine.
>
> Wanting to add margin kerning, I added the following lines:
>
> \input protcode.tex
>
> \pdfprotrudechars 2
>
> The protcode.tex (and the files that it calls) are taken from the current
> release of Kubuntu.
>
> Part of my file includes the following (to handle EC encoding properly):
>
> % œ
> \catcode`œ=\active
> \defœ{{\char"F7}}
>
> Then later, when pdfTeX encounters a "œ" character in the text, the
> following happens (cut-and-pasted from a terminal session):
>
> ----
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again>
>                    {
> "->\ifnum \quotestate =0 {
>                           \rm ``}\flipquotestate \else {\rm ''}\flipquotesta...
>
> �->{\char "
>            F7}
> l.6272 f�
>          tid breath swept over Catherine like a warm, noxious gale. She cowe...
>
> ?
>
> ----
>
> Is this a bug in the margin kerning code? It seems like a file that printed
> correctly without margin kerning should still compile properly once the
> margin kerning code is included.
>
>   Doc Evans
>
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>
>



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