[tex-live] Re: bug in the latest TeX Live snapshot.

Giuseppe Bilotta bilotta78 at hotpop.com
Sun Oct 10 15:22:05 CEST 2004


Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 
> > Could the problem be ascertained from sources without Tiqwah? If this is
> 
> Here's a simple test file with results (without idea what's going on):
> 
> \ifx\pdfcompresslevel\undefined\else\pdfcompresslevel=0 \fi
> \nopagenumbers
> \TeXXeTstate=1
> 
> \pdfoutput=1 % or 0, depending on PDF/DVI test
> 
> % pdfetex 1.11b, PDF mode: centered text "MyryVh ryV",
> %   shifted \parindent, no overfull box mark (!)
> % pdfetex 1.11b, DVI mode: centered text "MyryVh ryV",
> %   shifted \parindent, overfull box mark
> % pdfetex 1.20a, PDF mode: "MyryVh" and overfull box on page
> % pdfetex 1.20a, DVI mode: only overfull box mark on page
> % (etex 1.20a same as pdfetex 1.20a in DVI mode)
> 
> \beginR\centerline{Vyr hVyryM}\endR
> 
> \vfill\eject
> \parindent=0pt
> 
> % pdfetex 1.11b, PDF mode: centered text "MyryVh ryV"
> % pdfetex 1.11b, DVI mode: centered text "MyryVh ryV"
> % pdfetex 1.20a, PDF mode: page completely empty
> % pdfetex 1.20a, DVI mode: page completely empty
> % (etex 1.20a same as pdfetex 1.20a in DVI mode)
> 
> \beginR\centerline{Vyr hVyryM}\endR
> 
> \bye
> 
> funny, with 1.20a from \beginR\centerline{aac defghi}\endR one gets only
> "ihgfed", but from \beginR\centerline{abc defghi}\endR the page is
> empty. So it even depends on the chars.

Uh. This looks like a bug in the latest e-TeX?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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