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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Prakash Countcham <prakash.countcham@imag.fr> wrote:

> 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:
[...]
> \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.

What is the difference? Is it possible to see the difference in a
document that does not use this entcs.cls?

> 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}}%

Why do you think that inserting an italic correction here makes a
difference between latex and pdflatex? 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer