Bug#358503: [Srikanth Agaram] Re: Bug#358503: tetex-bin: latex linked to pdfetex and abstracts heading screwed up

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

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• To: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
• Subject: Re: Bug#358503: tetex-bin: latex linked to pdfetex and abstracts heading screwed up
• From: Srikanth Agaram <sagaram@ics.uci.edu>
• Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:10:17 -0800
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Frank Küster wrote:

"A. K. Srikanth" <sagaram@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-15
Severity: normal


There are two problems:
1 /usr/bin/latex seems to be a symbolic link to pdfetex and only outputs
pdf files.

That must be because of a buggy test for PDF output in your documents or
a style file.  pdfetex is perfectly capable of producing dvi files.
This is usually achieved automatically by setting \pdfoutput=0 if you
call it by the name "latex".  Naturally, the old (Knuth's) tex binary
doesn't know \pdfoutput at all.  There are some old documents/style
files which check whether \pdfoutput is defined, and unconditionally set
it to 1 if it is defined - that makes it produce PDF even if it was set
to 0 just before.

This seems to be right... removing some packages allows normal latex to work.

2 When running latex on a simple 'article' with 12pt font and a4paper,
the abstract heading is "Atrat". Nothing else seems to have changed.

I cannot reproduce this here, e.g. with this small document:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{abstract}
  foo
\end{abstract}

bar
\end{document}

Please provide a minimal example (see
http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html) that shows your problem.

Regards, Frank

I have attached the test tex file and pdf output of pdflatex. The problem does not appear in the dvi output of latex. What could be the problem?

Srikanth

Attachment: test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\title{Testing Latex}
\author{Srikanth Agaram}
\date{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
This is a test
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}

\section{Motivation}


\end{document}

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