Bug#293183: tetex-extra: spacing of footnotes with hyperref and pdflatex

[Prakash Countcham <prakash.countcham@imag.fr>]

Package: tetex-extra
Version: 2.0.2c-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


Hi,

I described the following problem on fr.comp.text.tex.

When I compile the document 

\documentclass{entcs}
\begin{document}
We do not consider variables and quantifiers for the following reason:
in SEM each input clause with $n$ universally quantified variables
$C(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$ is replaced by the conjunction of the ground clauses
$C(v_1,\ldots,v_n)$ for all possible\footnote{blabla} values $v_i\in D$.
Since the elements of $D$ are not constant symbols, we replace each
value $v\in D$ by a special, new constant symbol $a_v$. These constants are
special because they are given special values in $I$; we take $I[a_v] = \{v\}$,
and of course we implicitly add them to $\Sigma$. We will not prove that any
first order formula with equality $\psi$ can thus be transformed into a
set of ground clauses $\varphi$, such that searching models of $\psi$ in $D$
is equivalent (through a 1-1 correspondence) to searching models of
$\varphi$ among the refinements of $I$.
\end{document}
%% entcs.cls availaible in http://math.tulane.edu/~entcs/generic.tar.gz

with latex and pdflatex, I don't obtain the same result.

Arnaud Giersch, in message <87lla8xsdp.fsf@dinadan.u-strasbg.fr>, found
that it was a bug of hyperref and proposed the following patch for the
file hyperref.sty:

1127c1127
<     \smash{\raise\HyperRaiseLinkLength\hbox{#1}}%
---
>     \/\smash{\raise\HyperRaiseLinkLength\hbox{#1}}%

Is it possible to apply the patch and warn the authors?

Thanks,

Prakash

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other files

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 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r--  1 pcountch pcountch 280 2005-01-25 14:49 /home/pcountch/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r--  1 pcountch staff 3656 2005-01-25 14:49 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--  1 root staff 91 2005-01-25 14:49 /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--  1 root users 834 2005-01-25 14:49 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 29 2004-12-14 14:56 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN

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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii  dpkg                      1.10.26        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gsfonts                   8.14+v8.11-0.1 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii  tetex-base                2.0.2c-3       Basic library files of teTeX
ii  tetex-bin                 2.0.2-26       The teTeX binary files
ii  ucf                       1.13           Update Configuration File: preserv

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1127c1127
<     \smash{\raise\HyperRaiseLinkLength\hbox{#1}}%
---
>     \/\smash{\raise\HyperRaiseLinkLength\hbox{#1}}%