Bug 46785
Summary: | dvips wysiwyg error in math mode (not in tetex-1.0.6) | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | jhs28 |
Component: | tetex | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1.0 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-08-08 10:23:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
jhs28
2001-06-30 13:49:45 UTC
Created attachment 22287 [details]
LaTeX file to recreate the bug (also contains additional details)
Created attachment 22288 [details]
a diff of my (hacked) spec file which allows the package to be built without Japanese support so that the errors are not created
Yes, this happens with the precompiled binary packages too. Turning off Japanese support entirely is a little drastic, and 'Japanese doesn't work at all' is more severe than this bug. Is the problem definitely in the dvipsk patch, I wonder? The problem is solely due to the patch for dvips in dvipsk-jpatch-p1.5d.tar.gz. I verified this in the tetex-1.0.7-24 SRPM by commenting out the following line (line 292) of the spec file: patch -d texk -p0 < dvipsk-j/dvipsk586.patch As packaged, tetex-1.0.7-24 has the dvips error I have described, but when this single line is commented out, the error goes away (and luckily none of the other patches fail!). I can see your position in needing to have support for Kanji in your teTeX distribution for all the Japanese RedHat users, but I'm disappointed that yet again a large software vendor is choosing to add features immediately and fix (known) bugs later. I suppose I'll have to roll my own teTeX from now on. I forwarded this bug detail to ASCII Corp. They have verified the bug and provided a patch (see the URL below for the patch---notice that it will not be available until tomorrow). It looks like this patch should make its way into rawhide tetex (but as I haven't seen the patch, I have not tried it yet). I have attached a mail I received from one of the ASCII Corp. developers. Please note that they recommend that their patched version of dvips should NOT be provided on the default version of any teTeX distribution. Furthermore, note that on ASCII Corp's advice SuSE provides standard dvips as is and pdvips for the patched Japanese one. I really think this is what RedHat should do (but maybe with a more sensible name like dvipsj). Regards, John ================================================== From hideak-t.jp Wed Jul 25 10:39:52 2001 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:03:06 +0900 From: Hideaki Togashi <hideak-t.jp> To: jhs28.ac.uk Cc: www-ptex.jp, hideak-t.jp Subject: Re: [www-ptex 1946] Re: dvipsk-jpatch-p1.5d wysiwyg error in mathmode Hello, Mr. John H.Steele. This is Hideaki Togashi of ASCII Corp. in Japan. At last we may be able to specify the problem, we think. Your ps files and our Japanese TeX developers help us greatly. Thank you very much for your help. Now we made the new Japanese patch to dvipsk. For the time being, we offer the new patch as beta version at the following URL; ftp://ftp.ascii.co.jp/pub/TeX/ascii-ptex/beta/dvipsk-jpatch-p1.5e.tar.gz This file will be placed tomorrow. If you check this new patch and report the result to us, we will thank you greatly again. And if nobody report the bug, we plan to make this file open as the official version of the new Japanese patch to dvipsk. Thank you again. By the way, is the Japanese patched dvips used as the only one dvips on the RedHat Linux? We do not recommend it. When the SuSE Linux cheam asked us, we answered the same. So on the international version of SuSE Linux 7.2, Japanese patched dvips is named 'pdvips', and 'dvips' is the original one. We cannot check all the environment, and like you this time, some incompatibilities are reported sometimes. When we get the reports we try to do our best, but we cannot declare that Japanese patched dvips is full compatible to the original one. If you can, please tell the RedHat cheam not to use the japanese patched dvips as the only one dvips. Regards, -- Hideaki Togashi <hideak-t.jp> Thank you very much for this feeback, and sorry for the delay in responding. I am about to build with this patch, and I will look at shipping two dvips programs. (The patch fixes the problem here.) Fixed in 1.0.7-27. |