endofproofwd not working in TeX Live 2020

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:36:51 -0600 schrieb Scott Pakin:

> endofproofwd is rather broken in TeX Live 2020.  Here's a minimal
> reproducer:
> 
>     \documentclass{article}
>     \usepackage{endofproofwd}
>     \begin{document}
>     The end. \wasserdicht
>     \end{document}
> 
> and here's the result:
> 
>     ! LaTeX Error: File `comon/endofproofwd.pdf_tex' not found.
> 
> endofproofwd.sty imports comon/endofproofwd.pdf_tex (yes, with a
> hard-wired subdirectory), which does an \includegraphics of
> endofproofwd.pdf.  TeX Live mistakenly installs endofproofwd.pdf in the
> documentation directory (perhaps because CTAN mistakenly links to that
> file as "Package documentation"?), which also implies that pdftex, etc.
> won't be able to find it.

Wow. A end-of-proof symbol inserted in a figure environment (so that
it can float away?) and a picture environment with an additional
pdf_tex which uses the import package to redirected the search path. 

That's an impressing amount of code around a simple
\includegraphics.

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/