Bug 3314
| Summary: | tetex hyphenates "d-ifficulties" | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | nelson |
| Component: | tetex | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | srevivo, wray |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://nelson.www.media.mit.edu/people/nelson/tmp/tetex-bug/ | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-06-10 14:53:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I got a reply from the tetex list, from Thomas Esser. He says:
>Yes, a known problem. RedHat has used a version of a teTeX pretest
>which had a broken version of babel. This kind of problems are fixed
>in teTeX-1.0. I think that RedHat will sonn switch to that. It would
>be nice if RedHat made some update-rpm packages that at least fix the
>babel problem.
------- Additional Comments From 06/09/99 12:40 -------
tetex 1.0 is now out, which fixes this problem (and probably others).
It would be good if RH were to release errata RPMs with that.
Fixed (by upgrading) in tetex-1.0.1-2. *** Bug 4156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Sometimes teTex will choose to hyphenate a word after the first character of that word at the end of a line. e.g. This is an example of a line that might be hyphenated i- ncorrectly. I am sure this a problem with teTex, but perhaps a new version fixes the problem, or a attribute decided at compile time is the problem. |
The version of tetex shipped with Redhat 6.0 seems to make bad hyphenation choices. In particular, it is hyphenating "difficulties" as d-ifficulties, which is definitely not correct. Examples are in the supplied URL. The output of "\showhyphens{difficulties}" in both Redhat 5.2 and Redhat 6.0 is the same, "dif-fi-cul-ties". So the core hyphenation seems to be working right. Maybe some of the weightings are wrong? TeX has always had a hard time hyphenating in two column mode, but the new Redhat 6.0 behaviour is unacceptable. I am also mailing this bug report to tetex.de