Bug#264394: tetex-bin: e-TeX is broken on registers > 255
Le Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:14:38PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse:
> >
> I was afraid of this. Thanks for clarification. Is this bug that
> serious, that we have to assume e-TeX to be useless and to use better
> Knuth TeX instead?
upstream maintainers will probably deal with it: the LaTeX-project team
plan to use e-TeX for future LaTeX upstream releases, so if it is
broken, there will be work to fix it before releasing a new LaTeX
version.
Olaf, about your comments on the bug itself: in my minimal example, \z@
was re-defined, so your explaination might be possible. But in the full
initial example, \z@ was initially (as far as I can see) defined as
\dimen263: I'm working on a very large document, which loads dozens of
packages, and thus need more than the 256 registers in TeX, so I did a
small patch on the LaTeX kernel to make it use register <255 for inserts
and >255 for everything else. It works smoothly with Omega (did not yet
try aleph) but triggered this bug in e-TeX.
> So can we assume, that you forward the problem to the e-TeX team?
>
> Many thanks for you efforts. I'll tag that bug upstream for now.
Thanks for your efforts both of you.
Benjamin.
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