[OS X TeX] wierd rule behavior

[Joel Anderson]

Thanks for your response.  Here's a simpler description.

If I tex  the file

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts,latexsym,amscd}

\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}

$\sqrt{2}$

\end{document}


the square root looks fine on the screen.  But when I print it, the  
horizontal bar on top of the
square root doesn't appear on the printed page. Adding various other  
commands produces seemingly random
behavior.  Some bars print sometimes and not others.  I can't find any  
pattern except that I don't
have the problem on a 10.4 machine.


Joel Anderson



On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Joel Anderson wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear TeX Experts,
>>
>> Just recently (less than a week ago) I started to have problems  
>> printing horizontal lines in tex files.
>> I prepared a quiz for my math class with a line for the student's  
>> name and also containing
>> some square roots.  The line for the name didn't appear on the pdf  
>> file on the screen, but the horizontal
>> bars on top of the square roots did.  When I printed the pdf file,  
>> the line for the name didn't
>> appear and one of the square roots was missing the line on top.    
>> The other 2 square roots
>> printed fine.
>>
>> I made a test file as follows.
>>
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>>
>> \usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts,latexsym,amscd}
>>
>>
>> \pagestyle{empty}
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \vrule height.1pt width 2in
>>
>>
>> $\sqrt{2}$
>>
>> $\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}$
>>
>> \[
>> \sqrt{2}  \quad \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}
>> \]
>>
>> \end{document}
>>
>> This prints all square roots and the \vrule line fine.  If I  
>> comment out the displayed square roots at the end,
>> the \vrule prints, but the tops of all square roots disappear.
>>
>> I am running TeXShop 2.18-svn with Mac OS X version 10.5.5 on a  
>> Power Mac G5. I notice that Richard Koch
>> has announced that a new version of I-installer is available.  But  
>> He didn't provide a link to where I could
>> find it.  I wonder why?
>>
>>
>> Joel Anderson
>>
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> If I'm interpreting you correctly (I commented out all three lines  
> of the complete displayed ``equation'') I don't think I'm seeing ay  
> problem.
>
> <Original.pdf><Comented Out.pdf>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
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