[tex-live] apparent bug in detex
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Tue Nov 2 00:33:01 CET 2010
To put the bottom line at the top, Robin, please do write Dan about
this. Thanks. (BTW, Peter B wrote to Dan recently about the TL patches
to detex, but that is independent of this discussion.)
My comments, FWIW:
cfr> So if my test file contains the line:
Test\footnote{ a footnote} \emph{it} quickly.
then detex gives:
Test a footnote it quickly.
but detex -l gives:
Test it quickly.
[...]
I found the behaviour of the 2010 version [of detex]
differed significantly from that of the 2008 and 2009 versions:
detex (TL 2010) + wc: 209 3071 19119
detex (TL 2009) + wc: 193 3199 19970
detex (TL 2008) + wc: 193 3199 19970
I surmise it is because of upgrading to detex 2.8.
It seems to me it would be best for the original author to go back to
including footnote words by default (for the sake of compatibility), and
have a switch not to count them (if desired). But of course it's
ultimately his decision.
pd> a few misspelling
256 <Normal>"\\sunparagraph"{Z} ;
457 ErrorExit("-e option requires and argument");
576 ErrorExit("The environtment list contains too many
environments");
On line #256 a "subparagraph" is written as "sunparagraph," on line
#457 the word "and" should be "an", and on line #576 the first
"environtment" should be an "environment".
Indeed.
The patch files don't seem to correct these occurrences.
We wouldn't correct typos in error messages in any case. The
\\sunparagraph bug we wouldn't have had any reason to notice without
someone reporting it. Anyway ...
Thanks,
k
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