[OS X TeX] TL2003 vs. TL2004

[Claus Gerhardt]

Bruno,

The error message is almost the same, only the protectiondepth is 
different

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
\protectiondepth=\count165
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...tname \donetrue \else ^^M\donefalse
                                                   \fi \fi ^^M^^M\ifdone 
^^M\...
l.298 \ifnocontextobject \smashbox \do

I filed a bug report for babel. With regard to xetex, I can't offer any 
opinion, since xetex doesn't work on my machine, because of some 
non-tex related incompatibility, probably fonts.

Claus

On Dec 15, 2004, at 23:23, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> Having used both  TL2003 and TL2004 in recent weeks, let me share my 
>> experiences with you: In TL 2003 metapost and htlatex was broken for 
>> me; on the other hand, after applying Bruno's babel patch, TL2004  
>> runs fine and faster than TL2003 with the only (minor) exception that 
>> the option 'nowrite' in mpfic may not be used.
>
> Claus, according to tests done off-list with your file brane2d.tex, it 
> seems the last problem is a mere incompatibility between mfpic.tex and 
> the latest version of supp-mis.tex, shipped with TL2004. In any case 
> this is the error message I get with brane2d.tex, and which does not 
> happen with TL2003:
>
> 	(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
> 	loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
> 	\protectiondepth=\count159
> 	! Undefined control sequence.
> 	<argument> ...tname \donetrue \else ^^M\donefalse 	                   
>                                \fi \fi ^^M^^M\ifdone ^^M\...
> 	l.298 \ifnocontextobject \smashbox \do
>
> This only shows up when the [nowrite] option to {mfpic} is called for. 
> Could you confirm this is indeed the error message you're getting?
>
> Concerning the babel + amsart bug, it would be nice if you could 
> report it to the LaTeX maintainers (especially the babel maintainer 
> Johannes Braams): this is a generic problem, not linked with any 
> specific platform, so having it fixed as soon as possible would be 
> beneficial for the LaTeX community at large. Unfortunately I'm too 
> short of time to do it myself. 
> <http://www.latex-project.org/bugs.html>
>
>> Of course your experiences may differ depending on the packages you 
>> use, but for someone with similar usage behaviour my recommendation 
>> is clear: to install TL2004 (after having uninstalled the old 
>> installation completely - except your personal texmf).
>
> There's another unsolved problem, which is the dreaded 
> "[][][][][][][][]..." bug affecting some XeTeX users (XeTeX entering 
> an infinite loop of "[][][][][][][][]..." in the console log, 
> requiring to force-quit the TeX front-end). My impression is that this 
> is not linked with TL2004 in particular, but with some memory 
> configuration changes, brought in 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf by the TeX i-Package on 
> 28 November and affecting both the TL2003 and TL2004 setups after that 
> date. Is there some other user of XeTeX 0.88 here who would experience 
> the opposite (same bug with previous versions of gwTeX, or no bug with 
> more recent versions of gwTeX), so that we know the problem lies 
> elsewhere?
>
> Bruno Voisin
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