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by Philip TAYLOR 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > Nobody forces you to use double quotes. TeX still works as it did 20 > years ago. Why do we need a TeX parser to process filenames? We don't. But we do need to know how TeX operates, and in this context it is a many-layered operation. Scanning, parsing and tokenization all take place, as do execution and expansion, and with (I think) the sole exception of \lowercase and \uppercase (which are /horribly/ anomalous), each phase is quite distinct from the other. What you are suggesting (if I understand you correctly) would make \input even more anomalous than \...case, and that would (I believe) be a very retrograde step in the evolution of (derivates of) TeX. > What is the advantage if files are inaccessible? They are not. It is not impossible (or even outrageously difficult) to construct a control sequence that will expand to "foo<space><space>bar"; what /cannot/ be achieved is for "foo<space><space>bar" to appear in the input stream with normal catcodes and for the two spaces to still be there after the scanner has performed its function. ** Phil.

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] Passing Underscore
by Philip TAYLOR 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] [texhax] Passing Underscore
by Reinhard Kotucha 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

>>>>> "John" == John R Culleton <john(a)wexfordpress.com> writes: > Very interesting, although I usually rename all those (IMO silly) > Windows type filenames with spaces in them. I do so as well. It's more a GUI than a Windows problem. > Now what about two spaces in a row? Just curious. I tried and it seems that there is a severe bug in pdftex. \input "foo bar" loads the file "foo bar.tex" which is certainly not desired behavior. I send this mail to the pdftex developers list as well. Maybe this problem had been fixed already, I'm using "This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)" Regards, and thanks for the hint, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[ pdftex-Bugs-606 ] Forbidden ... while scanning ???
by noreply＠sarovar.org 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Bugs item #606, was opened at 2006-09-16 22:28 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Assigned to: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Summary: Forbidden ... while scanning ??? Initial Comment: \pdftrailer {abc \bye gives ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \pdftrailer. but \pdfximage {abc \bye or \pdfliteral {abc \bye give ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of ???. Instead of these three question marks there should be the name of the primitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-09-17 21:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 yes, the patch works, thanks a lot! But there are in fact many more \pdf... primitives that suffer from this problem, actually any with a scan_keyword call before the scan_pdf_ext_toks. After the way how it's done in @<Implement \.{\write}@>=, it seems that a new variable save_cur_cs is not needed if one uses k for this purpose. Needs change of a few k uses to j. But problematic is \pdfoutline as it has another scan_pdf_ext_toks for the attr keyword. Wouldn't these many changes be too risky for 1.40.0? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2006-09-17 18:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 The patch was missing. Fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2006-09-17 16:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 The cause seems to be that some scan_functions loose the meaning of cur_cs, which leads to the ??? when reaching <Tell the user what has run away...@>. The attached (IMHO crude) patch fixes this for the cases you mentioned, but there are probably other cases not found... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Bugs-606 ] Forbidden ... while scanning ???
by noreply＠sarovar.org 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Bugs item #606, was opened at 2006-09-16 22:28 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Assigned to: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Summary: Forbidden ... while scanning ??? Initial Comment: \pdftrailer {abc \bye gives ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \pdftrailer. but \pdfximage {abc \bye or \pdfliteral {abc \bye give ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of ???. Instead of these three question marks there should be the name of the primitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2006-09-17 18:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 The patch was missing. Fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2006-09-17 16:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 The cause seems to be that some scan_functions loose the meaning of cur_cs, which leads to the ??? when reaching <Tell the user what has run away...@>. The attached (IMHO crude) patch fixes this for the cases you mentioned, but there are probably other cases not found... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Bugs-606 ] Forbidden ... while scanning ???
by noreply＠sarovar.org 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Bugs item #606, was opened at 2006-09-16 22:28 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) >Assigned to: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Summary: Forbidden ... while scanning ??? Initial Comment: \pdftrailer {abc \bye gives ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \pdftrailer. but \pdfximage {abc \bye or \pdfliteral {abc \bye give ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of ???. Instead of these three question marks there should be the name of the primitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2006-09-17 16:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 The cause seems to be that some scan_functions loose the meaning of cur_cs, which leads to the ??? when reaching <Tell the user what has run away...@>. The attached (IMHO crude) patch fixes this for the cases you mentioned, but there are probably other cases not found... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106

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about TrueType Font can't be embedded by use the pdftex
by zhaohs 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Dear Michael, You say: ########################################## Otftotfm generates map lines that tell pdftex to embed the TTF directly (cool!). Unfortunately, pdftex does not like the Version 3.0 OS/2 table included in OpenType TTFs (boo!), so I hacked the font to change the OS/2 version number to 2.0. Alternately, one could recompile pdftex, after changing line 1026 of writettf.c to: if (version != 0x0000 && version != 0x0001 && version != 0x0002 && version != 0x0003) ================================================= Martin, can you please include this patch into the next release? Thanks. ########################################### But I can't compile the pdftex 1.30.6 from source, when I use ./build.sh in the directory pdftex-1.30.6 , the error message are: ############################# cat: ../src/Makefile.in: No such file or directory ./build.sh: line 49: cd: texk/web2c/web2c: 没有那个文件或目录 make: Nothing to be done for `all'. ./build.sh: line 50: cd: texk/web2c: 没有那个文件或目录 make: *** 没有规则可以创建目标“../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la”。停止。 ################################# Why? In addition, how can I hack the font to change the OS/2 version number to 2.0. as you hve done? Best, Hongsheng. __________________________________________________ �Ͽ�ע��Ż��? http://cn.mail.yahoo.com

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[ pdftex-Bugs-606 ] Forbidden ... while scanning ???
by noreply＠sarovar.org 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Bugs item #606, was opened at 2006-09-16 22:28 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Forbidden ... while scanning ??? Initial Comment: \pdftrailer {abc \bye gives ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \pdftrailer. but \pdfximage {abc \bye or \pdfliteral {abc \bye give ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of ???. Instead of these three question marks there should be the name of the primitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Patches-427 ] Character positioning patch
by noreply＠sarovar.org 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Patches item #427, was opened at 2005-09-11 12:39 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=427&group_id=106 Category: Positioning Group: v1.30.0 >Status: Closed Resolution: Accepted Priority: 5 Submitted By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Assigned to: Hans Hagen (hagen) Summary: Character positioning patch Initial Comment: Experimental patch increases resolution of /Widths array by 1 fractional digit, makes corrections of type ")-1(" and ")1(" in the TJ array happen much less often, particularily for CM fonts. Gives e. g. 1 % PDF file size shrink for pdfetex web sources compiled into PDF. Rough patch only, not for production. Testing welcome. Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-09-16 20:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 this is in pdftex 1.40.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2005-10-09 15:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 Patch extended: Now pdf_set_origin has (h, v) parameters, simplifies pdf_begin_text procedure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2005-10-09 00:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 Removed pdf_first_space_corr variable, as it seems that it was defunct anyway: There was no pdf_end_string procedure call (only place where something is done with pdf_first_space_corr), where afterwards the pdf_h variable (then modified by pdf_first_space_corr) would actually be used. E. g. pdf_moveto uses pdf_last_h instead, and after pdf_end_text there is anyway a pdf_set_origin call. And pdf_begin_string gets simpler. Testing welcome! Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2005-10-03 01:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 patch updated: now the TJ array building in procedure pdf_begin_string is simplified/tidied up. Testing welcome! Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=427&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Bugs-605 ] \pdfescapestring + \pdfescapename are broken in beta-20060906
by noreply＠sarovar.org 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Bugs item #605, was opened at 2006-09-13 17:49 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=605&group_id=106 Category: None Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Robert (schlcht) >Assigned to: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Summary: \pdfescapestring + \pdfescapename are broken in beta-20060906 Initial Comment: The last char of escaped characters will always be ^^0: \def\text{P^^D (F)} \message{\pdfescapestring{\text}} \message{\pdfescapename {\text}} \bye % log output is: % P\00^^@\04^^@\(F\) % P#0^^@#2^^@#2^^@F#2^^@ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2006-09-14 14:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 Found and fixed it. The snprintfs in escapestring and escapename were wrong. I'll check the other printf -> nprintf changes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=605&group_id=106

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