Bug#423406: soul.sty: "Reconstruction failed" if \hl command contains "\ "
Hi Melchior,
are you still maintaining you soul LaTeX package? A user of the package
as installed in the Debian TeX Live packages reported a small bug, or
maybe it's more a documentation problem:
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> If a \hl command contains "\ ", e.g. \hl{foo\ldots\ bar}, then I get
> a "Reconstruction failed" error.
>
> /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/soul/soul.pdf mentions several things
> that don't work, but there's nothing about "\ ".
(And it doesn't even need "\ " as a macro delimiter, just \hl{foo\ bar}
gives the same error).
> With the attached .tex file, I get:
>
> $ pdflatex soul-space.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./soul-space.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
> yphenation, croatian, bulgarian, russian, ukrainian, czech, slovak, danish, dut
> ch, finnish, finnish, french, basque, french, german, ngerman, german, ngerman,
> greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, ibycus, hungarian, hungarian, italian, italian
> , latin, latin, mongolian, mongolian, norsk, norsk, coptic, esperanto, estonian
> , icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, romanian, serbian, slovenian, turkish, up
> persorbian, welsh, polish, polish, portuguese, portuguese, spanish, catalan, ga
> lician, spanish, catalan, galician, swedish, swedish, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/soul/soul.sty) (./soul-space.aux)
>
> ! Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed.
>
> See the soul package documentation for explanation.
> Type H <return> for immediate help.
> ...
>
> l.12 \hl{foo\ldots\ bar}
>
> ?
The test file is available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423406;msg=5;filename=soul-space.tex;att=1
Thank you in advance,
Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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