[tex-live] txfonts bug

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Tue Jan 22 12:58:16 CET 2008


Dear Ryu,

I am one of the TeX Live maintainers, upstream and also for Debian. One
user of the Ubuntu packages found a small bug in the txfonts which is
easily seen by trying that:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{txfonts}
\begin{document}
\verb=\precapprox= prints as \ \  $\precapprox$\\
\verb=\nprecapprox= prints as \ \  $\nprecapprox$\\
\verb=\succapprox= prints as \ \  $\succapprox$\\
\verb=\nsuccapprox= prints as \ \  $\nsuccapprox$
\end{document}

If you compare that with the output using amssymb instead of txfonts you
see that \precapprox and \succapprox are exchanged. The fix is simple:

--- txfonts.sty.orig	2008-01-22 07:42:45.000000000 +0100
+++ txfonts.sty	2008-01-22 07:43:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -579,8 +579,8 @@
 \re at DeclareMathSymbol{\thicksim}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{115}
 \re at DeclareMathSymbol{\thickapprox}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{116}
 \re at DeclareMathSymbol{\approxeq}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{117}
-\re at DeclareMathSymbol{\succapprox}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{118}
-\re at DeclareMathSymbol{\precapprox}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{119}
+\re at DeclareMathSymbol{\succapprox}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{119}
+\re at DeclareMathSymbol{\precapprox}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{118}
 \re at DeclareMathSymbol{\curvearrowleft}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{120}
 \re at DeclareMathSymbol{\curvearrowright}{\mathrel}{AMSb}{121}
 \re at DeclareMathSymbol{\digamma}{\mathord}{AMSb}{122}

It would be great if you could fix this (as upstream) and re-upload a
fixed package (only uploading this file should be enough if there are no
other changes) to the CTAN archive, from where it will find its way into
the TeX Live distribution etc.

Thanks a lot for your contribution and all the best

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining at debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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