[tex-k] detex bug

Paul Vojta vojta at math.berkeley.edu
Tue Jun 21 00:00:56 CEST 2011


On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Paul Vojta wrote:
> 
> >When I process the following file through "detex -l"
> >
> >------------------------
> >\documentclass{minimal}
> >\begin{document}
> >some text \kern-1em$A B$ more text $xyz$ still more text
> >\end{document}
> >------------------------
> >
> >the output is
> >
> >------------------------
> >
> >
> >some text Bxyz
> >
> >------------------------
> >
> >which is incorrect.  (Adding a space after \kern-1em is a workaround.)
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I have somewhat modified the handling of \kern and glue specs in detex.l (TL
> SVN r22846).  Please have a look, your example and various generalizations
> should now work.
> 
> Regards
> Peter

The user who reported the bug has tried the new version, and reports no
problems.  Thanks for the quick response.

--Paul


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