Bug#68492: I can't reproduce this

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi all,

well, I did not know the reason but I reproduced this bug!

I did not investigate so precisely but when I compiled test2.tex
with latex then certainly the generated DVI lacked the black circular
points in front of the item's.

But if I compiled it with jlatex (of jtex-bin which is a Japanized 
TeX system) then there was no problem and it was very strange (to me)
but the generated DVI files have the same size (both showed the
message; Output written on test2.dvi (1 page, 344 bytes).)!

The included files seem the same and the difference I noticed is that
original latex is of "LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1" but
jlatex is of "LaTeX2e <1999/06/01> patch level 1".

The diff of latex.ltx's between '99/06/01 and '99/12/01 is
(trivial diff, i.e. the parts of comments are removed);

@@ -501,7 +505,7 @@
 \nonfrenchspacing
 %%% From File: ltvers.dtx
 \def\fmtname{LaTeX2e}
-\edef\fmtversion{1999/06/01}
+\edef\fmtversion{1999/12/01}
 \def\reserved@a#1/#2/#3\@nil{%
   \count@\year
   \advance\count@-#1\relax
@@ -1591,6 +1595,7 @@
    \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#2%
       \global\mathchardef\accent@spacefactor\spacefactor}%
    \accent#1 #2}\spacefactor\accent@spacefactor}
+\let\accent@spacefactor\relax
 \def\DeclareTextCompositeCommand#1#2#3#4{%
   \expandafter\let\expandafter\reserved@a\csname#2\string#1\endcsname
   \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\ifx
@@ -3939,6 +3944,7 @@
     \fi}%
   \let\do\@makeother \dospecials
   \obeylines \verbatim@font \@noligs
+  \hyphenchar\font\m@ne
   \everypar \expandafter{\the\everypar \unpenalty}%
 }
 \def\verbatim{\@verbatim \frenchspacing\@vobeyspaces \@xverbatim}
@@ -4139,7 +4145,8 @@
 \def\!{\mskip-\thinmuskip}
 \def\*{\discretionary{\thinspace\the\textfont2\char2}{}{}}
 \let\:=\>
-{\catcode`\'=\active \gdef'{^\bgroup\prim@s}}
+\def\active@math@prime{^\bgroup\prim@s}
+{\catcode`\'=\active \global\let'\active@math@prime}
 \def\prim@s{%
   \prime\futurelet\@let@token\pr@m@s}
 \def\pr@m@s{%
@@ -6507,9 +6514,11 @@
 }
 \begingroup
 \obeylines\obeyspaces%
+\catcode`\'\active%
 \gdef\@resetactivechars{%
 \def^^M{\@activechar@info{EOL}\space}%
-\def {\@activechar@info{space}\space}}%
+\def {\@activechar@info{space}\space}%
+\let'\active@math@prime}%
 \endgroup
 \def\@outputpage{%
 \begingroup           % the \endgroup is put in by \aftergroup

My system is of potato but tetex-* are of woody (but might be not
the latest).

ii  tetex-base     1.0.2-2        basic teTeX library files
ii  tetex-bin      1.0.7-2        teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-dev      1.0.7-2        kpathsea.a and include files for teTeX
ii  tetex-doc      1.0.2-2        teTeX documentation
ii  tetex-extra    1.0.2-2        extra teTeX library files
ii  tetex-lib      1.0.7-2        shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii  tetex-nonfree  1.0.2-2        non-free teTeX library files
ii  tetex-src      1.0-1          teTeX texmf source files

Does anyone can guess the reason?

Best Regards,			2000.8.7

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 Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.