[tex-live] microtype.sty and german.sty

[David Kastrup]

karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

> Bug report concerning microtype & german ... any advice appreciated.
>
> From: Michael Hoppe <mh at michael-hoppe.de>
> Date: 13 November 2004 13:23:58 GMT+01:00
> To: MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu
> Subject: [OS X TeX] microtype.sty and german.sty
> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>
> Dear TeXers,
>
> running that document
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{german}
> \usepackage[DVIoutput,expansion=false]{microtype}
>
> \begin{document}
> a
> \end{document}
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> either under 2003 or 2004, gives me a
>
> "Package microtype Warning: Character number @tempc larger than 255!
> Ignoring i
> t on input line 5."
>
>     But if microtype.sty is loaded *before* german.sty, the file is
> processed flawlessly.  Am I doing sth, wrong?

Most likely german's catcode settings for " interfere here (german.sty
is notorious to cause trouble with quite a few packages for this
reason).

I'd recommend using
\usepackage[german]{babel} % or ngerman for NDR
instead which switches the active characters on only at the start of
the document.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum