Bug#351825: Testcase

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 351825 wontfix
found 351825 3.0-13
thanks

Richard Lewis <debian@rtf.org.uk> wrote:

> "The upshot is that source specials are incompatible with certain
> packages, and fixing that requires changes that would be far more
> invasive of the TeX internals than the implementation is."
>
> The work-around is to disable source-specials when using syntax.
>
> I think "dont use source specials except in draft-mode (becaue they
> mess up vertical spacing)" is in most introductions to TeX but the
> syntax documentation ought to mention this more explicitly

Given that the syntax package has last been updated 1996, I don't have
much hope to get such a change on CTAN any time soon, and I guess our
energy regarding upstream contacts is better spent elsewhere.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)