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

Tigran Aivazian tigran at aivazian.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Oct 11 11:19:18 CEST 2004


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> I just got a bunch of messages
>   	"Re: [tex-live] bug in the latest TeX Live snapshot."
> accumulated over the weekend (but there never was the original one without
> the Re).

Hi Peter,

I also didn't receive my own message but I assumed this is because 
tex-live list isn't sending senders their own messages.

Anyway, the original problem is that I compiled a Hebrew text using the
latest TeX Live (either latex or pdflatex) and the output differs from
that produced by older TeX Live.

The dvi, pdf, aux and log files of both "old" and "new" are uploaded here:

 http://www.bibles.org.uk/bugs

The source code of the project is here:
 
http://www.bibles.org.uk/src/tnk.tar.gz

But to compile it you would need access to Tiqwah fonts and preprocessor 
which I am not allowed to distribute. But, if it turns out that the 
problems which the guys here narrowed down is in fact a different bug than 
the one I discovered, I will gladly give you (or anyone else who 
volunteers to help) ssh access to my box where Tiqwah is installed, so you 
could debug it there. I don't think it is to do with Tiqwah but rather 
with etex's different way of doing things inside \beginR\endR when 
\TeXXeTstate=1. Exactly the same layout (Greek NT as opposed to Hebrew OT) 
typeset with Greek (so in "left-to-right" mode) works fine with bold "old" 
and "new" TeX Live.

Kind regards
Tigran

PS. Maybe TeX Live distribution should have some sort of ".version" 
designation inside it's installed copy so I can give more meaningful 
designations instead of "old" and "new".



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