[pdftex] problem with margin kerning

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Jan 3 23:40:06 CET 2009


D. R. Evans writes:
 > Reinhard Kotucha said the following at 01/03/2009 12:27 PM :
 > > D. R. Evans writes:
 > 
 > > 
 > > I can reproduce the problem.  However, there is one strange thing:
 > > Though your file is displayed properly in Emacs, it seems that that
 > > there is an encoding problem.  Since strange things regarding
 > > encodings can happen in email clients, it's necessary that you check
 > 
 > I wondered about that. I was kind-of hopefully thinking that these days
 > everything is so standardized that all the necessary conversions would
 > occur by magic; also, I didn't want to force people to have to unzip a file
 > if it wasn't necessary.

Well, everything is standardized today indeed.  But regarding
character encodings, there are plenty of standards, international and
national ones.  Email clients have to be aware of all of them and this
is definitely not trivial.  Don't expect that everything is perfect.

BTW, I unzipped your attached file and it works here without any
problems.  I used the file protcode.tex from TeX Live and commented
out the lines

  \input abbr.tex
  \makeatletter
  \makeatother

BTW, the zipped file looks better (using "less"):

% <9C>
\catcode`<9C>=\active
\def<9C>{{\char"F7}}

Maybe you have a different version of protcode.tex, but if you'd like
to try the version I have, you can download it from

  http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/thanh/ext/protcode.tex

Regards,
  Reinhard

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