[pdftex] problem with margin kerning

[D. R. Evans]

Thanh Han The said the following at 01/03/2009 10:13 AM :
> I can compile your test file without problem:
> 
> ,--------
> | This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> (format=pdftex 2008.10.15)  3 JAN 2009 18:06
> | entering extended mode
> |  %&-line parsing enabled.
> | **test.tex
> | (./test.tex (/home/thanh/texmf/tex/generic/thanh/protcode.tex
> | \boxA=\box16
> | \countA=\count27
> | \countB=\count28
> | ) [1{/home/thanh/.texlive2008/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
> ){
> | /opt/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-ec.enc}</opt/texlive/2008/te
> | xmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb></opt/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/t
> | ype1/public/lm/lmr12.pfb>
> | Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 32652 bytes).
> | PDF statistics:
> |  15 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
> |  0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 131072)
> |  2049 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)
> `--------
> 
> I guess the problem is caused by some conflicting macros in protcode.tex and
> your macros. Please don't take protcode.tex as a reference, but rather as an
> example.

OK. (Sort of; I don't understand at all how exactly the same file can fail
here but work there.)

I haven't the foggiest idea how protcode works. I'm a user, not in any
sense a TeXpert. So I guess I'll just have to do without margin kerning and
leave it as a mystery why it's not working here. Maybe protcode.tex or
abbr.tex distributed by Kubuntu is different from what you have (I noticed,
for example, that the output following "protcode.tex" is very different
when you compile the file than when I do so). It seems like that's where
the difference must be.

Anyway, just for the record, here is what happens when I try to compile the
file:

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[HN:shadow] pdftex test.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex (./protcode.tex (./abbr.tex))
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
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            7}
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