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

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >>>>> "Hartmut" == Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel at gmx.de> writes:
> 
>     > error can be reproduced, seems to be something with etex:
> 
>     > % this line is ok 
>     > %\centerline{\beginR Vyr hVyryM\endR}
> 
> It doesn't work for me, "Vyr" is invisible in both cases.
> 

[snip]

> If you compare the pdf output of the lines 
> 
>    \centerline{\beginR 123 457 789\endR}
> 
> and 
> 
>    \centerline{\beginR\hbox{123 457 789}\endR}
> 
> you'll see that interword glue is not calculated properly unless the
> text is inside an \hbox.

The relative block in the \eTeX 2.2 source seem to suggest that 
the changes were done because \TeXXeT (as implemented in e-TeX) 
should be compatible with \TeXeT. Apart from possible bugs (I'm 
not in the vein to debug \eTeX at this time of night :)), does 
anybody have an actually runnable \TeXeT around to see how it 
behaved?

Otherwise, we might just revert that part to the old do_glue() 
routine, which seemed to work right and shouldn't influence the 
other changes in 2.2 ...

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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