Compiling errors with latest TL update when upcasing some Greek literals.
Joseph Wright
joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Thu Jun 29 14:05:37 CEST 2023
On 29/06/2023 08:54, Günter Milde wrote:
>
> Dear TeXLive maintainers,
>
> After an update of TL23 with tlshell on 2023-06-21, the following
> example says
> ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum. under pdflatex, xelatex, and lualatex.
>
> ~~~
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>
> \ifdefined \UnicodeEncodingName
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont{FreeSerif}
> \fi
>
> \usepackage[greek,english,provide*=*]{babel}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \foreignlanguage{greek}{ᾂ}
>
> \foreignlanguage{greek}{\MakeUppercase{ᾂ}}
>
> \end{document}
> ~~~
>
> The problem was reported to the LaTeX team
> https://github.com/latex3/latex3/issues/1236
> and fixed in commit
> https://github.com/latex3/latex3/commit/ebff6bde8026908f1ddaf657d43e030a31f59e36
>
> Unfortunatly, the fix does not seem to have made it into TexLive yet.
> After another update with tlshell today 2023-06-29, the problem persists.
> (With pdfLaTeX, format version 2023-06-01 patch-level 1, and the L3
> programming layer from 2023-06-16)
>
> Do I need just some more patience, am I missing something, or is there
> some step required from the side of the LaTeX3 team?
>
> Sincerely
> Günter Milde
>
> (babel-greek and greek-fontenc maintainer)
>
It's not released yet.
Joseph
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